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Hymedesmia Canadensis (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), a New Species Among New Geographical Records from the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

B.K. Ginn ,
A. Logan ,
M.L.H. Thomas  and
R.W.M. Van Soest
B.K. Ginn
Affiliation:
Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 5050, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, E2L 4L5.
A. Logan
Affiliation:
Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 5050, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, E2L 4L5.
M.L.H. Thomas
Affiliation:
Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 5050, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, E2L 4L5.
R.W.M. Van Soest
Affiliation:
Department of Coelenterates and Porifera, Institute for Systematics and Population Biology (Zoologisch Museum), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94766, 1090 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Sixteen sponge species were recorded from Little Letite Passage, an area of highvelocity tidal currents located in the Bay of Fundy near Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Of these 16 species, four species (Myxilla fimbriata, Hymeniacidon heliophila, Hemigellius sp. aff. flagellifer, and Crella rosea) have not previously been recorded from the Bay of Fundy. One new species, Hymedesmia canadensis, is described, based on the presence of a second peculiar chelate microsclere added to the spicule armament.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , November 1998 , pp. 1093 - 1100
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1998

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