Aplysina fulva ( 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 : 89-90

Aplysina fulva ( Pallas, 1766)

Tables 6, 7; Figs. 82A–C , 88F–G

Synonymy and references: Spongia fulva Pallas (1766: 383) , Wiedenmayer (1977: 66), Pinheiro et al. (2007: 14), and Muricy et al. (2011: 174); Aplysina aurea , Aplysina fragilis , [?] Aplysina higginsii , [?] Aplysina mollis , Luffaria cauliformis , Luffaria fulva , Verongia aurea , Verongia fistularis , and [?] Verongia thiona : see references compiled in Wiedenmayer (1977: 66); Aplysina fistularis f. fulva: Wiedenmayer (1977: 66) ; Aplysina fistularis , Aplysina aff. cauliformis : see references compiled in Pinheiro et al. (2007: 14), and Muricy et al. (2011: 174); Aplysina sp. , Aplysina fistularis fulva , Aplysina f. fulva , Verongia sp. , Verongia fistularis f. fulva and Verongia fulva : see references compiled in Muricy et al. (2011: 173); Aplysina fulva: 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. Armação dos Búzios, RJ, Brazil .

Material examined. CNPGG-1210, Madagascar reef (21.4379°N, 90.2775°W), 18 m depth, coll. Diana Ugal- de, 09 August 2016 ; CNPGG-1325, Alacranes reef (21.43794°N, 90.27755°W), 8.5 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 30 June 2016 ; CNPGG-1961, Cayo Arcas reef (20.20208°N, 91.97905°W), 6 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 26 April 2016 ; CNPGG-2361, Banco Obispo Sur reef (20.42345°N, 92.22743°W), 9 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 14 September 2017 ; CNPGG-2382, Triangulo Este reef (20.90009°N, 92.23405°W), 10 m depth, coll. Omar Dominguez, 11 September 2017 ;. CNPGG-1417, Alacranes reef (22.5567°N, 89.7840°W), 10 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 02 July 2012 .

Distribution. Mexico ( González-Gándara et al. 2009; De la Cruz-Francisco & Bandala-Pérez 2016; current records), Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea, Brazil ( Pinheiro et al. 2007).

Remarks. Up to now, in the GoM A. fulva has been reported from the northern sector ( Rützler et al. 2009), and recently listed in an ecological study in Veracruz, SGoM by De la Cruz-Francisco & Bandala-Pérez (2016). However, neither authors described the specimens.

Figures

FIGURE 82. Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1766) (CNPGG-2361), skeleton and fibers: A. skeleton; B. detail of fibers near the surface; C. detail of fibers and pith of the choanosomal region. Scale bars: A = 1000 µm; B–C = 200 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