Cliona flavifodina Rützler, 1974
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Cliona flavifodina Rützler, 1974 |
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Cliona flavifodina Rützler, 1974 View in CoL
Tables 6, 7; Figs. 18C–D View FIGURE 18 , 36B View FIGURE 36
Synonymy and references: Cliona flavifodina Rützler (1974: 373) ; Ugalde et al. (2015: 158).
Type locality. Bermuda .
Material examined. CNPGG-2164, Alacranes reef (22.37413°N, 89.66138°W), 5 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 19 May 2016 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2383, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.96412°N, - 92.30193°W), 9 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 9 September 2017 GoogleMaps ; Cayo Arcas reef (20.20432°N, - 91.96448°W), 3 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 21 August 2016 GoogleMaps .
Distribution. Mexico ( Ugalde et al. 2015, current records), Bermuda ( Rützler 1974) .
Remarks. Cliona flavifodina has been reported in a few localities only: Bermuda ( Rützler 1974) , Belize ( Rützler et al. 2014), and in the SGoM ( Ugalde et al. 2015). Furthermore, Carballo et al. (2004) recorded the species in the Tropical Mexican Pacific. Ugalde et al. (2015) have questioned this record due to differences in the morphology of spines of spiraster, and tylostyles in loose tracts.
Our material was also collected in coral reefs in the Campeche Bank (see above in material examined), and its spiculation, as well as spicule measurements, fit Ugalde’s et al. (2015) material. These authors have described a specimen with orange color in vivo and faded-yellow color in ethanol, tylostyles 190–420/7–13 µm (tyle 7.8–13/10– 15 µm), and spirasters (could be split into two categories) 7.8–50.7/1.5–2.6 µm with 1–4 bends. Ugalde et al. (2015) have mentioned that the tylostyle’s tyle is predominantly spherical, although the oval shape occurs. In our material tylostyles have predominantly oval tyles, which agrees with specimens from Bermuda ( Rützler 1974) . This author described tylostyles with droplet or elongate tyles (3.7–17.8 µm). Further, he described the species’ color as yellow-brown, its tylostyles with 178–409.4/0.7–11.1 µm and spirasters (some of them called amphiasters―smallest forms) with 14.4–65.6/0.5–3.2 µm and 1–5 bends. The spiculation of the specimens examined here fits Rützler’s (1974) material too. Tylostyles in our materials are 205–415/5.2–10.4 µm (tyle with 7.8–13 µm) in dimensions. A minor point of distinction relates to the smaller spirasters (with up to 7 bends) found by us 19.2–40.3/1–1.2 µm. On the other hand, our material’s yellow color in vivo fits better the color reported by Rützler (1974) than that by Ugalde et al. (2015).
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