Who's there? - First morphological and DNA barcoding catalogue of the shallow Hawai'ian sponge fauna.

The sponge fauna has been largely overlooked in the Archipelago of Hawai'i, notwithstanding the paramount role of this taxon in marine ecosystems. The lack of knowledge about Porifera populations inhabiting the Hawai'ian reefs limits the development of ecological studies aimed at understan...

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Main Authors: Laura Núñez Pons, Barbara Calcinai, Ruth D Gates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5739426?pdf=render