Aplysina insularis
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
Verongiida
Aplysinidae
Aplysina
Aplysina insularis

description: <i>Aplysina insularis</i> (Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864) Tables 6, 7; Figs. 83A–B, 88H <b>Synonymy and references:</b> <i>Luffaria insularis</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 61), and Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 176); <i>Aplysina fistularis</i> f. <i>fistularis</i>: see references compiled in Pinheiro <i>et al.</i> (2007: 21), and Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 176); <i>Aplysina fistularis insularis</i>: Green <i>et al</i>. (1986: 140), <i>Aplysina insulares</i> (misspelling), see references compiled in Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 176); <i>Aplysina insularis:</i> Pinheiro <i>et al.</i> (2007: 21), Hajdu <i>et al.</i> (2011: 233), Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 176) Rützler <i>et al.</i> (2009: 307), Pérez <i>et al.</i> (2017: 9), and Van Soest (2017: 209). <b>Type locality.</b> St. Thomas. <b>Material examined.</b> CNPGG-2255, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.95178°N, 92.30963°W), 23 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 09 September 2017; CNPGG-2268, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.96073°N, 92.30751°W), 19 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 10 September 2017. <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Green <i>et al</i>. 1986 as <i>A. fistularis insularis</i>, De la Cruz-Francisco &amp; Bandala-Pérez 2016, current records), Bermuda, Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea, Brazil (Pinheiro <i>et al.</i> 2007). <b>Remarks.</b> Our specimens conform in all aspects to <i>Aplysina insularis</i>. The species with the closest morphology to <i>Aplysina insularis</i> is <i>Aplysina muricyana</i> Pinheiro, Hajdu &amp; 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 <i>A. insularis</i>, and tubes with a polygonal contour bearing edges extending longitudinally in <i>A. muricyana</i>. Color when alive, golden yellow or brown in <i>A. insularis</i>, turning black after preservation in ethanol. Beige in <i>A. muricyana</i>, but green, brown-beige and red tinges are also common, turning from beige to brown when preserved in ethanol.
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 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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