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Acknowledgements
The “Sponge Biodiversity of Rathlin Island project”
was part funded by European Union strategic
funds from the EU Building Sustainable Prosperity
programme. Subsequent work on the Rathlin sponges
has been funded by EHSNI as part of the “Sublittoral
Survey Northern Ireland Project”. Work in Copenhagen
on the genus Hymedesmia was supported by a grant
from the European Commission’s (FP 6) Integrated
Infrastructure Initiative programme SYNTHESYS
(DK-TAF), we would like Ole Tendal for his assistance
during this visit. The authors would like to thank
all the fieldwork team, particularly Jen Jones, Anne
Marie Mahon and Louise Scally. Samples of other
species for comparison were provided by the National
Museum of Ireland and the Natural History Museum,
London. We would like to thank the curators of
these collections Mark Holmes and Clare Valentine
for facilitating access to the material.
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