Renata Manconi

Renata Manconi, Italian spongiologist and helminthologist.

• Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università di Sassari, Via Muroni 25, 07100 Sassari, Italy

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 18 taxon names authored by Renata Manconi

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2005

• 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. 

2008

• Manconi, R. & Serusi, A. 2008. Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids. ZooKeys 4: 71–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39 Reference page. 

2012

• Manconi, R., Ruengsawang, N., Ledda, F.D., Hanjavanit, C. & Sangpradub, N. 2012. Biodiversity assessment in the Lower Mekong basin: First record of the genus Oncosclera (Porifera: Spongillina: Potamolepidae) from the Oriental Region. Zootaxa 3544: 41–51. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3544.1.3 Reference page. 
• Ruengsawang, N., Sangpradub, N., Hanjavanit, C. & Manconi, R. 2012. Biodiversity assessment of the Lower Mekong Basin: A new species of Corvospongilla (Porifera: Spongillina: Spongillidae) from Thailand. Zootaxa 3320: 47–55. Preview Reference page. 

2013

• Manconi, R., Cadeddu, B., Ledda, F. & Pronzato, R. 2013. An overview of the Mediterranean cave-dwelling horny sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae). ZooKeys 281: 1–68. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.281.4171 Reference page. 

2015

• 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. 

2016

• 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. 
• Melis, P., Riesgo, A., Taboada, S. & Manconi, R. 2016. Coping with brackish water: A new species of cave-dwelling Protosuberites (Porifera: Demospongiae: Suberitidae) from the Western Mediterranean and a first contribution to the phylogenetic relationships within the genus. Zootaxa 4208(4): 349–364. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.4.3. Reference page. 

2017

• Stocchino, G.A., Sluys, R., Montanari, A. & Manconi, R. 2017. A new species of stygobiont freshwater planarian (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) from a chemoautotrophic ecosystem: the Frasassi karst in Italy. Zootaxa 4323(4): 547–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.7. Reference page. 

2019

• 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. 

2022

• 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.