Nothing in (sponge) biology makes sense – except when based on holotypes

Sponge species are infamously difficult to identify for non-experts due to their high morphological plasticity and the paucity of informative morphological characters. The use of molecular techniques certainly helps with species identification, but unfortunately it requires prior reference sequences...

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Published in:Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2016-03, Vol.96 (2), p.305-311
Main Authors: Erpenbeck, Dirk, Ekins, Merrick, Enghuber, Nicole, Hooper, John N.A., Lehnert, Helmut, Poliseno, Angelo, Schuster, Astrid, Setiawan, Edwin, De Voogd, Nicole J., Wörheide, Gert, Van Soest, Rob W.M.
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Marine
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Systematics
Taxonomy
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