Marine Sponges of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India/J.G. Pattanayak. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2006, vi, 164 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-119-X. [Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 255].

    Contents: Introduction. Topography of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Material and method. Systematic list of sponges of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Taxonomic Acount: 1. Cinachyra arabica. 2. Cinachyra australiensis. 3. Paratetilla bacca. 4. Tetilla dactyloidea. 5. Ecionemia acervus bowerbank. 6. Rhabdastrella globostellata. 7. Stelletta clavosa Ridley. 8. Stelletta purpurea Ridley. 9. Stelletta validissima Thiele. 10. Erylus lendenfeldi Sollas. 11. Poecillastra eccentrica Dendy and Burton. 12. Poecillastra tenuilaminaris Sollas. 13. Thenea Andamanensis Dendy and Burton. 14. Cliona ensifera sollas. 15. Cliona kempi Annandale. 16. Cliona lobata Hancock. 17. Cliona mucronata Sollas. 18. Cliona quadrata Hancock. 19. Cliona vastifica Hancock. 20. Cliothosa hancocki. 21. Spirastrella inconstans. 22. Spirastrella Andamanensis sp. nov. 23. Tethya diploderma Schmidt. 24. Tethya repens Schmidt. 25. Tethya robusta Bowerbank. 26. Discodermia gorgonoides Burton. 27. Discodermia papillata carter. 28. Theonella swinhoei Gray. 29. Petromica massalis Dendy. 30. Clathria (Microciona) atrasanguinea. 31. Clathria (Thalysias) vulpina. 32. Echinodictyum asperum Ridley and Dendy. 33. Raspailia (Raspailia) typica Nardo. 34. Rhabderemia Prolifera Annandale. 35. Kirkpatrickia spiculophila Burton and Rao. 36. Psammochela elegans Dendy. 37. Damiriopsis brondstedi Burton. 38. Iotrochota baculifera Ridley. 39. Monanchora enigmatica (Burton and Rao, 1932) n. comb. 40. Tedania (Tedania) anhelans. 41. Biemna liposigma Burton. 42. Mycale (Mycale) crassissima. 43. Mycale (Mycale) indica. 44. Auletta Andamanensis sp. nov. 45. Axinella tenuidigitata Dendy. 46. Axinella acanthelloides sp. nov. 47. Bubaris columnata Burton. 48. Amorphinopsis foetida (Dendy, 1889) n. comb. 49. Spongosorites halichondrioides (Dendy, 1905) n. comb. 50. Spongosorites Andamanensis sp. nov. 51. Haliclona (Gellius) flagellifer (Ridley and Dendy, 1886) n. comb. 52. Haliclona (Gellius) megastoma (Burton, 1928) n. comb. 53. Gelliodes fibulatus. 54. Calyx clavata burton. 55. Xestospongia testudinaria. 56. Phyllospongia foliascens. 57. Clathrina coriacea. 58. Pericharax heteroraphis polejaeff. 59. Hyalonema aculeatum Schulze. 60. Hyalonema affine Marshall. 61. Hyalonema indicum Schulze. 62. Hyalonema lamella Schulze. 63. Hyalonema martabanense Schulze. 64. Hyalonema masoni Schulze. 65. Hyalonema rapa Schulze. 66. Lophophysema inflatum Schulze. 67. Pheronema raphanus Schulze. 68. Semperella cucumis Schulze. 69. Aphrocallistes beatrix gray. 70. Aphrocallistes bocagei Wright. 71. Aphrocallistes ramosus Schulze. 72. Hexactinella minor Dendy and Burton. 73. Euplectella regalis Schulze. 74. Euplectella simplex Schulze. 75. Lophocalyx spinosa Schulze. Summary. Acknowledgements. References.

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