Igernella notabilis
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
Dendroceratida
Dictyodendrillidae
Igernella
Igernella notabilis

description: <i>Igernella notabilis</i> (Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864) Tables 6, 7; Figs. 74A–B, 79D <b>Synonymy and references:</b> <i>Euryades notabilis</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 106); <i>Darwinella joyeuxi</i> Topsent (1889:17); <i>Igernella notabilis:</i> Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 55), Rützler <i>et al.</i> (2014: 96), Pérez <i>et al.</i> (2017: 9), and van Soest (2017: 18); <i>Darwinella joyeuxi</i>, <i>Euryades notabilis</i>, <i>Igernella joyeuxi</i>: see references compiled in Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 55). <b>Type locality.</b> St. Thomas. <b>Material examined.</b> CNPGG-1133, Alacranes reef (22.3670°N, 89.6751°W), 12 m depth, coll. Patricia Gómez, 03 August 2012; CNPGG-1770, Sisal reef (21.4416°N, 90.2913°W), 12 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 24 January 2013; CNPGG-2234, Triangulo Este reef (20.90°N, 92.2340°W), 10 m depth, coll. Deneb Ortigosa, 11 August 2017; CNPGG-2244, CNPGG-2252, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.95178°N, 92.30963°W), 9–23 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 09 September 2017; CNPGG-2295, Banco Obispo Norte reef (20.49111°N, 92.20296°W), 14 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 13 September 2017. <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Topsent 1889 as <i>Darwinella joyeuxi</i>; current records), Bermuda (Rützler <i>et al.</i> 2014), Cuba (Alcolado 2002), other countries in the Caribbean Sea; Guyana, and Brazil (van Soest 2017). <b>Remarks.</b> Only three species of <i>Igernella</i> have been reported worldwide: <i>Igenella mirabilis</i> Lévi 1961 from the Indo-Pacific, <i>I. vansoesti</i> Uriz &amp; Maldonado 1996 from Cape Verde, and the current <i>I. notabilis</i>. We agree with the comment by van Soest (2017) on the need to verify the presence of <i>I. vansoesti</i> from Cape Verde reported in the GoM, since both materials differ in habit and skeletal measurements. <i>Igernella notabilis</i> has been reported in Campeche by Topsent (1889), and is a common species in the coral reefs of the area. The distinctive habit of the species in the GoM region was the presence of short tubes joined in a row, a common form in other parts of the Caribbean. There is only one report with encrusting shape 5 mm thick, due to its juvenile state (Rutzler <i>et al</i>. 2014). <b>Order Dictyoceratida Minchin, 1900</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 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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