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Is the North Atlantic Geodia barretti (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge?
Rengaiyan Periasamy1, Paco Crdenas2, Palayil John Kurian3
1National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research; Headland Sada; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Vasco-da-Gama; Goa; India. periasamy@ncpor.res.in.
Abstract:
There are currently 163 species of Geodia Lamarck, 1815 described worldwide, many of which are found in deep waters, but none of which have been recorded from the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR). Spicule morphology and barcodes (Folmer COI, 28S (C2D2), partial 18S) suggest that a specimen of Geodia collected on the SWIR at a depth of 2236 m is closely comparable to Geodia barretti Bowerbank, 1858. Geodia barretti is the most studied and thus well-known deep-sea Geodia species, due to its wide North Atlantic distribution and key role in boreal sponge grounds. This unexpected and markedly disjunct record would extend the distribution range of this species considerably, consequently challenging our knowledge about interoceanic deep-sea sponges.
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