Aplysina fistularis ( Pallas, 1766 )

Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, Zootaxa 5031 (1), pp. 1-112 : 88-89

Aplysina fistularis ( Pallas, 1766)

Tables 6, 7; Figs. 81A–B , 88D–E

Synonymy and references: Spongia fstularis Pallas (1766: 385) , Wiedenmayer (1977: 64), Pinheiro et al. (2007: 10) Pinheiro et al. (2007: 10), and Muricy et al. (2011: 173); Spongia tubaeformis Lamarck (1814: 435) ; Spongia fistulosa , S. [S pongia] fistulosa , S. [S pongia] fistularis and Luffaria insularis : see references compiled in Wiedenmayer (1977: 64); Verongia fistularis: Green (1977: 85) , Pinheiro et al. (2007: 10), and Muricy et al. (2011: 173); Aplysina fistularis forma fistularis: Wiedenmayer (1977: 64) , Gómez (2002: 100), and Muricy et al. (2011: 173); Verongia fistularis f. fistularis : see references compiled in Pinheiro et al. (2007: 10); Aplysina fistularis: Pinheiro et al. (2007: 14) , Rützler et al. (2009: 307), Hajdu et al. (2011:230), Muricy et al. (2011: 174), Rützler et al. (2014: 98).

Type locality. Puerto Rico .

Material examined. CNPGG-1235, Alacranes reef (22.41752°N, 89.73927°W), 10 m depth, coll. Diana Ugal- de, 29 June 2016 ; CNPGG-1237, Madagascar reef (21.43794°N, 90.27755°W), 8 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 09 August 2016 ; CNPGG-1381, Alacranes reef (22.3864°N, 89.6801°W), 18 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 18 February 2012 .

Distribution. Mexico ( Gómez & Green 1984; Lanza-Espino de la & Gómez- Rojas 2004; González-Gándara et al. 2009; De la Cruz-Francisco & Bandala-Pérez 2016; current records), Bahamas ( Wiedenmayer 1977), US (Florida, de Laubenfels 1936), Bermuda, other countries in the Caribbean Sea, Brazil ( Rützler et al. 2014), Guyana ( van Soest 2017).

Remarks. Aplysina fistularis is a common species in reefal environments like Veracruz, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo’s reefs ( Green 1977; Green et al. 1986; González-Gándara et al. 2009). Aplysina fistularis has also been reported from the northern GoM ( Rützler et al. 2009). In 1948 de Laubenfels explained the right designation of the neotype for A. fistularis , proposing Puerto Rico as the type locality. Those records of Aplysina fistularis from the eastern Pacific (Baja California) are inaccurate since the different specimens reported possess a distinct morphology and skeletal architecture than those from A. fistularis in the TNwA ( Gómez et al. 2018).

Figures

FIGURE 81. Aplysina fistularis (Pallas, 1766) (CNPGG-1235), skeleton and fibers: A. transversal section of the skeleton; B. detail of fibers and pith. Scale bars: A = 500 µm; B = 100 µm.

FIGURE 88. In situ photographs of species analyzed in the present study: A. Aiolochroia crassa (Hyatt, 1875) (CNPGG 2250); B. Aiolochroia crassa (Hyatt, 1875) (CNPGG 2205); C. Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882), specimen from Alacranes reef (Campeche Bank), not collected; D. Aplysina fistularis (Pallas, 1766) (CNPGG-1235); E. Aplysina fistularis (Pallas, 1766) (CNPGG-1381); F. Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1766) (CNPGG-2361); G. Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1766) (CNPGG-1961); H. Aplysina insularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (CNPGG-2255); I. Aplysina lacunosa (Lamarck, 1814) (CNPGG-1395); J. Suberea flavolivescens (Hofman & Kielman, 1992) (CNPGG-2169), arrows indicating specimens and surface detail zoomed in; K. Chondrilla caribensis Rützler, Duran & Piantoni, 2007 (CNPGG-2405); L. Chondrosia collectrix (Schmidt, 1870) (CNPGG- 2228). Scale bars, A–L = 1