Excavating sponges from the Pacific of Central America, descriptions and a faunistic record
Por:
Pacheco, Cristian, Luis Carballo, Jose, Cortes, Jorge, Segovia, Johanna, Trejo, Alejandra
Publicada:
15 ene 2018
Resumen:
Excavating sponges are one of the main groups of bioeroders in coral
reefs. Their diversity has been thoroughly studied in some regions: in
the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Indo-Pacific, including the
Mexican Pacific. However, there is a lack of information from the
Pacific of Central America, with only a few records from Panama and
Costa Rica. This study provides additional distributional records and
taxonomic descriptions of species collected between 2011 and 2016 at
nine localities along the Pacific coast of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica and Panama. A total of fourteen species of excavating sponges from
three orders, three families, and five genera are considered valid in
this area. Nine are new records for Central America, six are new records
for El Salvador, three are new records for Nicaragua and eleven are new
records for Costa Rica. The species collected from Panama were already
recorded before. The species here described are Cliona amplicavata,
Cliona californiana, Cliona euryphylle, Cliona microstrongylata, Cliona
aff. mucronata, Cliona pocillopora, Cliona tropicalis, Cliona vermifera,
Cliothosa tylostrongylata, Pione cf. carpenteri, Pione mazatlanensis,
Thoosa calpulli, Thoosa mismalolli and Siphonodictyon crypticum. We also
reviewed the literature related to excavating sponges from Central
America, and the taxonomic status of respective species was updated. We
provide a faunistic record of 14 excavating sponge species for Central
America. Our data are expected to be useful for management and
conservation purposes.
Filiaciones:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, ICMYL, Av Joel Montes Camarena, Mazatlan 82040, Sinaloa, Mexico
Univ Costa Rica, Ctr Invest Ciencias Mar & Limnol CIMAR, San Jose 115012060, Costa Rica
Univ El Salvador, Inst Ciencias Mar & Limnol, San Salvador, El Salvador
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