Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids Author Manconi, Renata urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author: ,, Italy Author Serusi, Annalisa urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author: Università di Sassari, Sassari ,, Italy text ZooKeys 2008 2008-12-17 4 4 71 87 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.4.39 bba028eb-c611-4704-9c01-4d2ea30dc3e3 1313–2970 576426 93A5F62F-9A24-4F64-9BFB-C6347AAB45B1 Corallistes masoni (Bowerbank, 1869) Lion Gulf , Marseille coast, Figuier dark cave, 43°20’N 5°25’E , 12 m of depth, SCUBA diving (Pouliquen 1972) Lion Gulf , Marseille coast, Morgiou, dark cave, 30 m of depth, SCUBA diving (Pouliquen 1972) NE-Ligurian Sea, S. Lucia Bank, 43°34’N 09°28’E , seamount, muddy bottom, 550-640 m of depth, trawling (Magnino et al. 1999); Central Tyrrhenian Sea, white corals bank, 400-600 m of depth, trawling (Magnino et al. 1999) Distribution: W-Mediterranean, Cape Verde Islands, Madeira.