Comments on brazilian Halichondria Fleming (Halichondriidae, Halichondrida, Demospongiae), with the description of four new species from the São Sebastião Channel and its environs (Tropical Southwestern Atlantic)
AUTOR(ES)
Carvalho, Mariana de S., Hajdu, Eduardo
FONTE
Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2001-07
RESUMO
Over 70 species of Halichondria Fleming, 1828 are known world-wide, but only five from the Brazilian Coast. Brazilian records have their status re-evaluated here, and four new species are described for the São Sebastião Channel area, in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic, viz. H. cebimarensis sp. n., H. sulfurea sp. n., H. migottea sp. n. and H. tenebrica sp. n.
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