Spirastrella coccinea
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
Clionaida
Spirastrellidae
Spirastrella
Spirastrella coccinea

description: <i>Spirastrella coccinea</i> (Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864) Tables 6, 7; Figs. 20A–D, 36C <b>Synonymy and references:</b> <i>Thalysias coccinea</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 84); <i>Spirastrella coccinea</i> de Laubenfels (1936: 22), de Laubenfels (1949a: 19), de Laubenfels (1950: 96), van Soest (1981: 5), Macintyre <i>et al.</i> (1982: 134), van Soest <i>et al.</i> (1983: 199), Thomas (1985: 304), Vacelet (1990: 22), Gómez 2007: 55, Rützler <i>et al.</i> (2009: 296), Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 70), Alcolado &amp; Busutil (2012: 68), Rützler <i>et al.</i> (2014: 37), Ugalde <i>et al.</i> (2015: 160), van Soest (2017: 172). <b>Type locality.</b> St. Thomas. <b>Material examined.</b> CNPGG-2251, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.9641°N, - 92.3019°W), 9 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 09 September 2017; CNPGG-2375, Banco Pera reef (20.72669°N, - 91.93481°W), 20 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 15 September 2017; CNPGG-2414, Isla Verde reef (19.19844°N, - 96.06863°W), 6 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 28 August 2018. <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Gómez 2007, 2011; De la Cruz-Francisco &amp; Bandala-Pérez 2016; current records), Bermuda (de Laubenfels 1950), Bahamas, US (Florida), other countries in the Caribbean Sea, Brazil (Muricy <i>et al</i>. 2011). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Spirastrella</i> is characterized by possessing tylostyles in a variety of lenghts and spirasters of one or more types, in some cases with bifurcations in their rays. However, the length in both the spirasters and tylostyles overlapp among species, which complicates species identification. The two species have three spirasters that differ in <i>S. coccinea</i> for being larger than in <i>S. mollis</i>. Although the tylostyles are similar in length in both species, in <i>S. coccinea</i> they are thinner than in <i>S. mollis. Spirastrella coccinea</i> is a common species in the coral reefs of the GoM; it was previously recorded from the Veracruz Reef System (Gómez 2007, 2011), and now from different coral reefs at the Campeche Bank, and additional materials from the Veracruz Coral Reef System.
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 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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