Mycale (Arenochalina) laxissima
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
Poecilosclerida
Mycalidae
Mycale
Mycale laxissima

description: <i>Mycale</i> (<i>Arenochalina</i>) <i>laxissima</i> (Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864) Tables 6, 7; Figs. 52A–D, 58G <b>Synonymy and references:</b> <i>Acamas laxissima</i> Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti (1864: 95), and Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 154); <i>Acamasina laxissima</i> de Laubenfels (1936: 117); <i>Mycale hyatti</i> Pulitzer-Finali (1986: 128); <i>Mycale jamaicaensis</i> Pulitzer-Finali (1986: 125); <i>Mycale mucifliens</i> Pulitzer-Finali (1986: 121); <i>Mycale whitfieldi</i> Pulitzer-Finali (1986: 127); <i>Hircinia cartilaginea</i> var. <i>horrida</i>, <i>Esperella nuda</i>, <i>Mycale angulosa</i>, <i>Mycale nuda</i>, <i>Mycale</i> (<i>Acamasina</i>) <i>laxissima</i>, <i>Mycale</i> (<i>Arenochalina</i>) <i>laxissima</i>, and <i>Thorecta horridus:</i> see references compiled in Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 154); <i>Mycale laxissima</i>: Gómez (2002: 81), Hajdu <i>et al.</i> (2011: 165), and Muricy <i>et al.</i> (2011: 154). <b>Type locality.</b> St. Thomas (US Virgin Islands). <b>Material examined.</b> CNPGG-2416, Isla Verde reef (19.19844°N, 96.06863°W), 8 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 28 August 2018; CNPGG-1234, Madagascar reef (21.43847°N, 90.2810°W), 12 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 29 May 2012; CNPGG-1825, Alacranes reef (22.2701°N, 89.5412°W) 8 m depth, coll. Patricia Gómez, 10 August 2009; CNPGG-1829 Alacranes reef (22.386914°N, 89.6790°W), 7 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 13 December 2012; CNPGG-2267, Triangulos Oeste reef (20.96073°N, - 92.30751°W), 20 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 10 September 2017. <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Gómez &amp; Green 1984 as <i>M. (A.) angulosa</i>; current records), Bahamas, US (Florida)(Zea 1987), and Brazil (Muricy <i>et al.</i> 2011). <b>Remarks.</b> Up to now, <i>Mycale</i> (<i>M.</i>) <i>laxissima</i> has been reported in the SGoM (Veracruz and the Campeche Bank reefs; Gómez 2002, 2007, 2011) and Florida (de Laubenfels 1936, 1953; as <i>Mycale angulosa</i>). <b>Order Polymastiida Morrow &amp; Cárdenas, 2015</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 57-58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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