Biodiversity of Nearctic inland water: discovery of the genus Heterorotula (Porifera, Spongillida, Spongillidae) in the Appalachian Mountains, with biogeographical implications and description of new species
This paper reports the discovery of a small population of sponges in the Pigeon River of eastern Tennessee, USA, which were morphologically distinct from Spongillida of North America. A morphological comparative analysis resulted in the first Nearctic record of the genus Heterorotula with the descri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2022-07-01
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| Series: | ZooKeys |
| Online Access: | https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/79615/download/pdf/ |