title: Sponges of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in Indonesia.
abstract: Nine species in five genera of the family Axinellidae, including three new species, Axinella badungensis sp. nov., A. balinensis sp. nov. and Phycopsis pesgalli sp. nov. are recorded from Indonesian waters within the limits of the Western Coral Triangle province. Descriptions and discussion of those species are presented here. Four new combinations, Phakettia arbora (Sim, Kim & Byeon, 1990) comb.nov., P. trachys (De Laubenfels, 1954) comb.nov., Echinoclathria retepora (Lendenfeld, 1887) comb.nov. and Amphimedon hispidula (Ridley, 1884) comb.nov. are also established here. The distributions of species previously described are here extended to the study area with the exception of Phakellia atypica which seems so far restricted to Indonesia.
authors.affiliation: Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia Current address: Lund University, Department of Geology, Lund 22362, Sweden.; Email: Belinda.alvarez@geol.lu.se.
authors.forename: Belinda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.affiliation: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Dept. Marine Zoology, P.O.Box 9517 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Email: nicole.devoogd@naturalis.nl.
authors.forename: Nicole J De
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Voogd
authors.affiliation: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Dept. Marine Zoology, P.O.Box 9517 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Rob W M Van
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Soest
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007214:Indonesia; D011161:Porifera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D013045:Species Specificity