Amphimedon viridis 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 viridis

description: <i>Amphimedon viridis</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864 Tables 6, 7; Figs. 31A–C, 36N <b>Synonymy and references:</b> <i>Amphimedon viridis</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 8), Green <i>et al</i>. (1986: 134), Hajdu <i>et al.</i> (2011:191), Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 104); <i>Hemihaliclona viridis</i> Burton (1937: 18); <i>Haliclona viridis</i> Laubenfels de (1936: 42, 1953: 519), and <i>Haliclona</i> (<i>Amphimedon</i>) <i>viridis</i>: see references compiled in Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 104). <b>Type locality.</b> St. Thomas. <b>Material examined.</b> CNPGG-2222, Cayo Arcas reef (20.20512°N, - 91.96305°W), 2 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 21 August 2018; CNPGG-2477, Isla de Enmedio Reef (19.09864°N, - 95.93680°W), 3.5 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 11 June 2019. <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Green 1977; Maas-Vargas 2004; Gómez 2007; current records), Bermuda, Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea, Brazil (Hajdu <i>et al.</i> 2011). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Amphimedon viridis</i> has been reported in different works from the GoM. On the Mexican coast, the species was recorded in Blanquilla reef, Veracruz by Green <i>et al.</i> (1986), and later on by Gómez (2007) in different coral reefs around Veracruz Reef System. In the northern GoM, several authors cite <i>A. viridis</i> in this area (Rützler <i>et al.</i> 2009). <b>Genus <i>Niphates</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864</b>
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 pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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