Chondrilla caribensis Rützler, Duran & Piantoni, 2007

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 : 92-93

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC3A59D1-E09E-407E-93F4-4796FD3D7C19

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495507

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/110587B3-4D50-484D-FF53-F94C4863300A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Chondrilla caribensis Rützler, Duran & Piantoni, 2007
status

 

Chondrilla caribensis Rützler, Duran & Piantoni, 2007

Tables 6, 7; Figs. 86A–B View FIGURE 86 , 88K View FIGURE 88

Synonymy and references: Chondrilla caribensis Rützler, Duran & Piantoni (2007: 100) , and Rützler et al. (2014: 53), Ugalde et al. (2015: 161), and van Soest (2017: 12); Chondrilla caribensis cf. caribensis and Chondrilla caribensis cf. hermatypica: Gómez (2007: 57), and Pérez et al. (2017: 9).

Type locality. Belize .

Material examined. CNPGG-2405, Hornos reef (19.19083°N, 96.11777°W), 3 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 27 August 2018.

Distribution. Mexico ( Gómez 2007; current records), Bermuda, Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea ( Ugalde et al. 2015), Guyana to Brazil ( van Soest 2017).

Remarks. Chondrilla caribensis has two intraspecific forms: forma caribensis mainly distributed in the mangroves habitat, and generally grayish to chestnut and purplish-brown color, and forma hermatypica mainly distributed in coral reef areas, distinguished by a yellowish brown to olive color and lighter areolas surrounding the oscules ( Rützler et al. 2007a). Although both forms share similar sizes of spherasters, forma caribensis has spherasters with microspination on the tips, and hermatypica lacks the microspination. To distinguish between both forms it is necessary to examine SEM micrographs.

Up to now, C. caribensis has been reported it the northern sector of the GoM ( Rützler et al. 2007a) and in the Campeche Bank reef by Ugalde et al. (2015).

Order Chondrosiida Boury-Esnault & Lopes, 1985

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF