Roberto Pronzato

Roberto Pronzato, Italian spongiologist.

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Manconi, R. & Pronzato, R. 2005. Freshwater sponges of the West Indies: Discovery of Spongillidae (Haplosclerida, Spongillina) from Cuba with biogeographic notes and a checklist for the Caribbean area. Journal of Natural History 39(36): 3235–3253. DOI: 10.1080/00222930500307327 Reference page.

Copeland, J., Pronzato, R. & Manconi, R. 2015. Discovery of living Potamolepidae (Porifera: Spongillina) from Nearctic freshwater with description of a new genus. Zootaxa 3957(1): 37–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.2 Reference page.
Manconi, R., Cadeddu, B. & Pronzato, R. 2015: Adaptive morpho-traits, taxonomy and biogeography of Metania Gray, 1867 (Porifera: Spongillina: Metaniidae) with the description of a new species from Madagascar. Zootaxa 3918(1): 39–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.2. Reference page.

Manconi, R., Cubeddu, T. & Pronzato, R. 2016. Australian freshwater sponges with a new species of Pectispongilla (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillida). Zootaxa 4196(1): 61–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.1.3. Reference page.
Manconi, R., Perino, E. & Pronzato, R. 2016. A new species of Agelas from the Zanzibar Archipelago, western Indian Ocean (Porifera, Demospongiae). ZooKeys 553: 1–31. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.553.5999 Reference page.

Manconi, R. & Pronzato, R. 2019. The genus Corvospongilla Annandale, 1911 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillida) from Madagascar freshwater with description of a new species: biogeographic and evolutionary aspects. Zootaxa 4612(4): 544–554. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.4.6 Reference page.
Pronzato, R. & Manconi, R. 2019. An overview on the freshwater sponge fauna (Demospongiae: Spongillida) of New Zealand and New Caledonia with new insights into Heterorotula from deep thermal vents of the Lake Taupo. Journal of Natural History 53(35–36): 2207–2229. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1694716 Reference page.

Manconi, R., Copeland, J., Kunigelis, S. & Pronzato, R. 2022. Biodiversity of Nearctic inland water: discovery of the genus Heterorotula (Porifera, Spongillida, Spongillidae) in the Appalachian Mountains, with biogeographical implications and description of new species. Zookeys 1110: 103–120. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1110.79615 Reference page.