Aplysina insularis ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495505 |
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Aplysina insularis ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 ) |
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Aplysina insularis ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) View in CoL
Tables 6, 7; Figs. 83A–B View FIGURE 83 , 88H View FIGURE 88
Synonymy and references: Luffaria insularis Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864: 61) , and Muricy et al. (2011: 176); Aplysina fistularis f. fistularis : see references compiled in Pinheiro et al. (2007: 21), and Muricy et al. (2011: 176); Aplysina fistularis insularis: Green et al. (1986: 140) , Aplysina insulares (misspelling), see references compiled in Muricy et al. (2011: 176); Aplysina insularis: Pinheiro et al. (2007: 21) , Hajdu et al. (2011: 233), Muricy et al. (2011: 176) Rützler et al. (2009: 307), Pérez et al. (2017: 9), and Van Soest (2017: 209).
Type locality. St. Thomas .
Material examined. CNPGG-2255, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.95178°N, 92.30963°W), 23 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 09 September 2017 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2268, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.96073°N, 92.30751°W), 19 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 10 September 2017 GoogleMaps .
Distribution. Mexico ( Green et al. 1986 as A. fistularis insularis, De la Cruz-Francisco & Bandala-Pérez 2016 , current records), Bermuda, Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea, Brazil ( Pinheiro et al. 2007).
Remarks. Our specimens conform in all aspects to Aplysina insularis . The species with the closest morphology to Aplysina insularis is Aplysina muricyana Pinheiro, Hajdu & Custódio, 2007 from das Rocas atoll (off northeastern Brazil). Both consist of groups of short and anastomosed tubes with apical oscules up to 1 cm in diameter, and soft consistency. However, they differ in the contour of the tube, lobate, often widening toward their apices (somewhat infundibuliform) with fairly smooth surface in A. insularis , and tubes with a polygonal contour bearing edges extending longitudinally in A. muricyana . Color when alive, golden yellow or brown in A. insularis , turning black after preservation in ethanol. Beige in A. muricyana , but green, brown-beige and red tinges are also common, turning from beige to brown when preserved in ethanol.
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