Biemna Gray, 1867

Cristobo, Javier, Almón, Bruno, Pérez, Jacinto & Ríos, Pilar, 2024, A new species of the genus Biemna Gray, 1867 (Porifera: Biemnidae) from shallow waters of the Northwestern Iberian coasts, Zootaxa 5446 (1), pp. 121-132 : 123

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5446.1.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11084708
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scientific name	Biemna Gray, 1867
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Genus Biemna Gray, 1867 View in CoL

Diagnosis sensu Hajdu & van Soest 2002: Massive, cup-shaped or tubular sponges, with uneven surface. Plumose or plumoreticulate choanosomal skeleton, with variable development of spongin fibres cored by (subtylo-) styles of a single size, occasionally replaced by oxeote spicules; ectosomal skeleton made up of brushes of megascleres making the surface often shaggy; microscleres include sigmata, raphides, microxeas, commata, microstrongyles and spheres.