Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti 1864
Creators: name: Ugalde, Diana
name: Fernandez, Julio C. C.
name: Gómez, Patricia
name: Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele
name: Simões, Nuno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Niphatidae
Amphimedon
Amphimedon compressa

description: <i>Amphimedon compressa</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864 Tables 6, 7; Figs. 30A–B, 36M <b>Synonymy and references:</b> <i>Amphimedon arborscens</i> Lamarck (1814: 446); <i>Spongia arborescens</i> Lamarck (1814: 446); <i>Spongia rubens</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 41); <i>Amphimedon arborescens</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 79); <i>Haliclona rubens</i> Laubenfels de (1953: 519), Hartman (1955: 167), Green (1977: 86); <i>Amphimedon arborscens var. ensiformis</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 79); <i>Haliclona</i> (<i>Amphimedon</i>) <i>compressa</i>, <i>Amphimedon</i> aff. <i>compressa</i> and <i>Amphimedon</i> sp.: see references compiled in Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 103); <i>Amphimedon compressa</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 78), Green <i>et al</i>. (1986: 134), Gómez (2002:82), Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 103). <b>Type locality.</b> The Virgin Islands. <b>Material examined.</b> CNPGG –1900, Alacranes reef (22.39255°N, 89.69508°W), 5 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 15 May 2016; CNPGG –1950, Cayo Arcas reef (20.19161°N, - 91.99086°W), 12.5 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 23 August 2016; CNPGG –2290, Banco Obispo Norte reef (20.4946°N, - 92.20378°W), 24 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 13 September 2017; CNPGG –2403, Hornos reef (19.19083°N, - 96.11777°W), 3 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 27 August 2018; CNPGG –2419, Isla Verde reef (19.20166°N, - 96.07094°W), 3.8 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 28 August 2018; CNPGG –2437, CNPGG –2438, CNPGG –2440, Cabezo reef (19.05086°N, - 95.82388°W), 9.3–9.5 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 28 August 2018. <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Hartman 1955; Green 1977 as <i>Haliclona rubens</i>; Gómez &amp; Green 1984; Green <i>et al.</i> 1986; Gómez 2002; Maas-Vargas 2004; González-Gándara <i>et al.</i> 2009; De la Cruz-Francisco &amp; Bandala-Pérez 2016; current records), Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea; Brazil (Muricy <i>et al</i>. 2011). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Amphimedon compressa</i> is a common inhabitant of the coral reefs in the GoM; it has been recorded in different coral reefs of Veracruz (Green <i>et al.</i> 1986; Gómez 2007, 2011; González-Gándara <i>et al.</i> 2009), as well as in the Campeche Bank by Hartman (1955, as <i>Haliclona rubens</i>). We observed this species frequently in different coral reefs at the Campeche Bank. <i>A. compressa</i> had also been reported by several authors, in the northern GoM (Rützler <i>et al.</i> 2009) and off Quintana Roo (Gómez 2002; Maas-Vargas 2004).
description: Published as part of <i>Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele &amp; Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 5031 (1)</i> on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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