Geodia Archives

Looking for fossil Geodia at the Natural History Museum in London

by Martina Milanese on December 21, 2017 with No Comments

Our team members Paco Cardenas (UU), Ana Riesgo and Vassia Koutsouveli (both NHM) have been through the immense sponge collections at the Natural History Museum in London in the frame of various SponGES research lines. One full day … Read More

First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens

by Martina Milanese on September 8, 2017 with No Comments

REFERENCE Cárdenas, Paco; Moore, Jon A. (2017). Marine Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0775-3 ABSTRACT We report the first records of the sponge genus Geodia (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) from the New England Seamounts and Muir Seamount, at lower bathyal depths. Nine specimens collected between … Read More