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Sampled on the wall of dive site Grotta della Colombara, Portofino Marine Protected Area. It was a small sponge with short branches and covered in polyps of Anthozoan Parazoanthus axinellae.

ID by Joana Xavier combining microscope and molecular work. Funding from European Commission, Project SPECIAL FP7-KBBE-2010-4-266033