MARINE SPONGES
FROM HISPANIOLA ISLAND
Alejandro
Herrera-Moreno (1), Liliana Betancourt (1) and Pedro M. Alcolado (2)
(1) Programa Ecomar,
Inc.
Sarasota
Ave.
121, Bella Vista, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
(2) Institute of Oceanology, 1 st. Ave., 18406, Flores, Playa, La
Habana, Cuba
ABSTRACT. A historical chronology of researches on sponges from
Hispaniola Island, since 1864 to the present, is presented.
Information comes from the results of national and international
expeditions and projects in more than 20 Dominican and Haitian localities, collections of
five museums that harbor 41 species, and more than 40 taxonomic and
ecological publications. From this analysis 138 sponge species are
now known to be reported for Hispaniola: 127 for Dominican Republic
(adding 102 species to the last national inventory), 63 species for
Haiti and one species for the Island, with no country specified. Six
species: Axinella corrugata, Pseudotrachya amaza, Polymastia
tenax, Xestospongia dominicana, Prosuberites psammophilus and
Ecionemia dominicana have Dominican type localities. The
compiled species are representative of mangroves, seagrass beds and
coral reefs from the shore down to about 40 meter deep.
Reference:
Herrera-Moreno, A., L. Betancourt y P. M. Alcolado 2011. Marine
sponges from Hispaniola Island, online English
version from:
Especies de
esponjas someras marinas conocidas para la Isla Hispaniola.
Novitates Caribaea, National Museum of Natural History of Santo Domingo,
in press.
INTRODUCTION
More
than a century of contributions to the knowledge of the Porifera of
Hispaniola Island are scattered in collections of several museums, project
reports, theses and publications. The need for a review and
compilation of this information and their proper updating in the
light of the recent taxonomic changes is a challenge, if we want to
scientifically assess the level of knowledge of the marine biota of
the Island for the use and conservation of a largely unknown
biodiversity.
In the Greater Antilles, there is a catalog of sponges
of Cuba (Alcolado, 2002) but as far as we know there is not any
inventory for Hispaniola Island, although there is a preliminary
compilation of 36 species from Dominican Republic (CIBIMA, 1992).
With the implementation of the
HISPABIOTA MARINA Project by Programa
EcoMar, Inc. in Dominican Republic a first compilation and review of
the literature and taxonomy of species of sponges with a historical
and insular approach was done (Herrera-Moreno and Betancourt, 2005).
This first inventory is updated and expanded in this review, which
presents the first referenced list of the Porifera of Hispaniola,
with indications of the reports for each country that shares the
island: Haiti and Dominican Republic.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
For
the preparation of this report a search of publications focused in
the systematic and taxonomy of marine sponges and original
inventories from projects focused on the study of marine
biodiversity, were carried out. A review of information from
international museums was done as well. Relevant reports for
Hispaniola Island were found in the online collections of the
National Museum of Natural History of the United States of America (NMNH,
2011), the Michigan Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ , 2011) and
the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam (ZMA, 2011). Pulitzer-Finali
(1986) provides information about the Porifera of Hispaniola in the
Genoa Museum (MSNG) while Reiswig (2002) in the Great Britain Museum
(BMNH).
The
focus of this paper is insular. Records were divided into those for
Dominican and those for Haitian localities for purposes of guidance
on the level of knowledge in each country. The general arrangement
of orders and families in the list of species, and the updating of
scientific names follow basically the criteria of the
World Porifera
Database (Van Soest et al., 2011) complemented by Pedro M. Alcolado.
The
references where each species is mentioned are indicated in
brackets, identifying respectively, with D, H or HI if the report belongs to
Dominican Republic, Haiti or Hispaniola, with no country specification. The abbreviation of
museums that harbor the species and at least one collection number
are also provided, if appropriate. For those species where a
correction or amendment has been done, there is a footnote with the
name that appears in the original report, so that our taxonomic
updates can be confronted.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Porifera research on Hispaniola Island has among its earliest
precedents the book of the Caribbean Sea Sponges of Duchassaing and
Michelotti (1864) with two species for the Island of Santo Domingo (Ciocalypta
alleni y Amphimedon compressa). These species were
reviewed by De Laubenfels (1936) and included by Van Soest et al.
(1983) in the
Catalogue of the Duchassaing y Michelotti (1864) collection of
West Indian sponges. Hyatt (1877), in his review of North American Porifera mentioned two species from Haiti. Carter (1879), in his
description of Asteropus simplex, includes Haitian material
from the Liverpool Museum.
In February 1933, during the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition
in the Yacht Caroline, collections were made at two stations in
Samana Bay (Stations 51 and 52), Dominican Republic, at depths of 10
to 37 m. Seven species of sponges were reported, two of them having
the Samana Bay as type locality: Axinella corrugata (George &
Wilson, 1919) and Pseudotrachya amaza (de Laubenfels, 1934)
(De Laubenfels, 1934). They are deposited in the National Museum of
Natural History (NMNH, 2011).
On
July 1978, V. P. Vicente collected sponges in several locations
in the Dominican South coast (Boca Chica, La Malena and Las Salinas)
at about 6 m deep, incorporating at least seven new records (Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979), which are also deposited in the National Museum
of Natural History (NMNH, 2011). Rathe (1981) lists 25 species for
Dominican Republic, including 9 new reports. The inventories
conducted by the RV Crawford Expedition on the coral reefs of La
Caleta, Catalina and Saona Islands (Williams et al., 1983),
added five new records.
However the most important contribution to knowledge of the
Dominican sponges was done by Pulitzer-Finali (1986) with his
studies on April 1964 at five locations (Boca Chica, La Caleta,
Punta Magdalena, Punta Salinas and Sosua) with 53 reports, including
descriptions of four species with type localities in the Dominican
Republic: Polymastia tenax (probably junior synonym of P.
nigra Alcolado, 1984) in Sosua, and Xestospongia dominicana,
Prosuberites psammophilus and Ecionemia dominicana
(junior synonym of Ancorina megastylifera in Winterman-Kilian
y Kilian, 1984) in Boca Chica. Also in June 1988 a detailed study
of coral reefs were conducted at Les Arcadines in Haiti, at thirteen
stations on different ecological zones (from the reef lagoon to the
fore reef) at depths of 0.3 to 21 m (Wilcox et al., 1989). The
highest number of species known to Haitian waters, with 58 species
of common shallow sponges, comes from this report.
New
studies in the 90’s expand the inventory of the Dominican sponges in
different reef environments with nine new records. These include the
researches of the University of East Carolina (Luczkovich, 1991) and
CIBIMA (1998), between Manzanillo and Punta Rucia in Montecristi;
and of the Caribbean Marine Conservation Science Center in the
Parque Nacional del Este (CMC, 1994). A paper of the Center for
Conservation and Ecodevelopment of Samaná Bay and its Environs (CEBSE)
provides an inventory of the sponges of the reefs of the North of
the Samana Peninsula (Sang, 1996).
Later, there were important contributions to the Dominican sponges
from The Nature Conservancy research in the Parque Nacional del Este
(TNC, 2001) and the University of Puerto Rico at various locations (Grumelandia,
Playa del Coco, Los Carraplanes, Punta Lanza, Cabo Falso, Lanza Zo,
Bahía de Águilas, Bahía Honda in Cabo Rojo and Los Frailes) of the
Jaragua National Park in Pedernales (Weil, 2006), yielding
respectively 13 and 23 new reports of sponges for Dominican waters.
In
addition, there are three new reports from studies of Programa
EcoMar in Haina (Herrera-Moreno et al., 2009) and the
University of Florida in Pedernales (León and Bjorndal, 2002). The
Miami University carried out an inventory of the sponges of the
reefs of Bavaro and Punta Cana (Brandt et al., 2003). Grace
et al. (2000) conducted a preliminary study of the biota of
Navassa Island that lists three species of sponges for this Haitian
locality.
Species for Dominican Republic are mentioned also in the reviews of
the Order Halichondrida (Diaz et al., 1993), the Family
Chalinidae (Weerdt et al., 1991; Weerdt, 2000), Axinellidae
(Alvarez et al., 1998) and Tethyidae (Sarŕ, 2002), and the Genus
Mycale (Hajdu and Rützler 1998), Lissodendoryx (Rützler et al.,
2007) and Iotrochota (Rützler et al., 2007a). Reiswig (2002),
in his review of the Family Aulocystidae and Uriz (2002) in his
review of the Family Ancorinidae mention two species from Haiti.
At
least 41 species of Porifera of Hispaniola are preserved in the
collections of five museums: 23 in the National Museum of Natural
History of the United States of America (NMNH, 2011), 8 at the
Museum of Genoa MSNG (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986), 7 at the Michigan
Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ, 2011), two in the Zoological
Museum of Amsterdam (ZMA, 2011) and one in the Natural History
Museum of Great Britain BMNH (Reiswig, 2002).
The
number of sponges known from Hispaniola Island in this review amount
to 138 species (with two forms), distributed in 3 classes, 15 orders, 43 families and
78 genera. 63 species are reported for Haiti, 127 for the
Dominican Republic (with 53 shared species) and one for the Island of
Hispaniola with no country specified (Table 1). The latter figure
increases the Dominican review of CIBIMA (1992) with almost 90 species,
including 6 species with Dominican type localities. All localities
mentioned in the text are found in a map (Figure 1).
Table 1. List of Porifera of Hispaniola. * Type species. D.
Dominican Republic, H. Haiti, HI. Hispaniola. References are indicated in brackets.
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Class
HEXACTINELLIDA
Order Lychniscosida
Family Aulocystidae
Neoaulocystis grayi (Bowerbank, 1869)
H[Soest and Stentoft, 1988; BMNH 1910.10.18.3]►
As
Aulocystis grayi.
See review of Aulocystidae by Reiswig (2002)
Class DEMOSPONGIAE
Order
Homoscleromorpha
Family Plakinidae
Plakortis angulospiculatus
(Carter, 1879) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
►
Plakinastrella onkodes
Uliczka, 1929 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
►
Plakortis
halichondrioides (Wilson, 1902)
D[Weil, 2006]
Order Spirophorida
Family Tetillidae
Cinachyrella alloclada
(Uliczka, 1929) D[Rathe,
1981]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]►
Cinachyrella kuekenthali
(Uliczka, 1929) D[León
and Bjorndal, 2002;
NMNH32256] ►
Order Astrophorida
Family Ancorinidae
Asteropus simplex
(Carter, 1879) H[Carter, 1879]►
As
Stellettinopsis simplex
Ecionemia dominicana
(Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)* D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; Holotype MSNG47679]►
As Stellettinopsis dominicana
Stelletta kallitetilla
(de Laubenfels, 1936) D[León
and Bjorndal, 2002]
Family Calthropellidae
Pachastrissa hartmeyeri
Uliczka, 1929 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Family Geodiidae
Erylus bahamensis
Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Erylus formosus
Sollas, 1886
D[Williams et al., 1983]/ H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Geodia gibberosa
Lamarck, 1815 D[NMNH, 2011;
NMNH22349]►
NMNH data locate
this species in Haiti, but the geographic coordinates (19.16806 and -69.35694)
correspond to the
Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition of
1933 in Samana
Bay, Dominican Republic.
Geodia neptuni
(Sollas, 1888)
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Order Hadromerida
Family Suberitidae
Prosuberites psammophilus
(Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)* D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; Holotipo MSNG47686]►
As Laxosuberites psammophilus
Family Polymastiidae
Polymastia tenax
Pulitzer-Finali, 1986*
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; Holotipo MSNG47687]
Family Chondrillidae
Chondrilla caribensis
Rutzler, Durán and Piantoni, 2007 D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
As
Chondrilla nucula in all references. C. nucula was first described by Schmidt (1862) for the Mediterranean and it was suspected
that the Western Atlantic population could be a separate species. Rützler et
al. (2007b), based on morphological and molecular evidence, describe it
under the new name of Chondrilla caribensis with two ecological forms.
Family Clionaidae
Cliona aprica
Pang, 1973 D[Weil, 2006]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
As
Cliona aprica
form profunda
Cervicornia cuspidifera
(Lamarck, 1815) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]►
As Spheciospongia cuspidifera
Cliona delitrix
Pang, 1973
D[Luczkovich, 1991]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Pione
lampa
(Laubenfels, 1950) D[Weil, 2006]
Cliona caribbaea
Carter, 1882 D[TNC, 2001]►
Cliona varians
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]►
Spheciospongia vesparium
(Lamarck, 1815) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Family Spirastrellidae
Spirastrella coccinea
(Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Family
Trachycladidae
Trachycladus spinispirulifer
(Carter, 1879) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]►
As
Spirastrella spinispirulifera
Family Tethyidae
Tectitethya crypta
(Laubenfels, 1949) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
As
Tethya crypta in all references. In the material examined by
Sarŕ (2002) for the description of this species, appeared:
San Domingo. Pansini coll. 2206
Tethya actinia
Laubenfels, 1950 D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979]
Tethya aurantium
(Pallas, 1766) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Tethya diploderma
Schmidt, 1870
D[TNC, 2001]
Family Timeidae
Diplastrella megastellata
Hechtel, 1965 D[TNC,
2001]
Timea unistellata
(Topsent, 1892) D[Pulitzer-Finali,
1986]
Order Agelasida
Family
Agelasidae
Agelas
clathrodes (Schmidt,
1870) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Agelas
conifera (Schmidt, 1870)
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Agelas
dispar Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al.,
1989]
Agelas sceptrum
(Lamarck, 1815) D[TNC,
2001]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Agelas schmidtii
Wilson, 1902 D[Williams
et al., 1983]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Agelas
weidenmayeri Alcolado,
1984 D[TNC,
2001]
Order Poecilosclerida
Family Acarnidae
Acarnus innominatus
Gray, 1867 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Family
Microcionidae
Artemisina
melana van Soest, 1984
D[Weil, 2006]
Clathria virgultosa
(Lamarck, 1814) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986;
NMNH32262]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
►
Rhaphidophlus juniperinus
in Pulitzer-Finali (1986). Thalysias juniperina in NMNH
Clathria (Microciona) bulbotoxa
van Soest, 1984 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]►
Pandaros acanthifolium
Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864 D[Luczkovich, 1991]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Family Raspailiidae
Ectyoplasia ferox
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986;
NMNH32259]/ H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
Family Anchinoidae
Phorbas amaranthus
Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864 D[Weil, 2006]
Family Crambidae
Monanchora arbuscula
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[TNC,
2001]►
TNC (2001) includes Monanchora unguifera and M. barbadensis
Family Myxillidae
Pseudotrachya
amaza
(de Laubenfels, 1934(* D[De Laubenfels, 1934;
NMNH22348]
Desmapsamma anchorata
Carter, 1882 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986;
NMNH 32257]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
►
As
Holopsamma helwigi. In the NMNH there is a specimen of Desmacidum
carterianum (NMNH22344) collected in Samana Bay. According to Hechtel
(1965) this species is a junior synonym of Desmapsamma anchorata
Iotrochota birotulata
(Higgin, 1877) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/ H[Wilcox et al.,
1989]
Lissodendoryx
(Lissodendoryx)
isodictyalis
(Carter, 1882)
D[Rutzler
et al., 2007a;
NMNH32254]
Strongylacidon
sp. D[Weil,
2006]
Family Phloeodictyidae
Oceanapia
fistulosa (Bowerbank,
1873) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Family Tedaniidae
Tedania ignis
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Family Desmacellidae
Desmacella meliorata
Wiedenmayer, 1977 D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979; NMNH32249]
Neofibularia nolitangere
(Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/ H[Wilcox et al.,
1989]
Family Mycalidae
Mycale arndti
Soest, 1984 D[Weil,
2006]
Mycale
(Mycale) laevis Carter, 1882 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989] ►
As
Oxymycale strongylata
in Pulitzer-Finali (1986)
Mycale laxissima
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Weil,
2006; NMNH32250]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
►
As
Mycale (Acamisina) cf. laxissima in NMNH
Mycale (Grapelia) unguifera
Hajdu, Zea, Kielman & Peixinho, 1995 D[TNC, 2001]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
►
As Mycale unguifera in TNC
(2001)
Order
Halichondrida
Family
Axinellidae
Axinella corrugata (George and
Wilson, 1919)* D[De
Laubenfels, 1934;
NMNH22347]
►
As Oxeostilon burtoni in NMNH
Dragmacidon
reticulatum (Ridley and
Dendy, 1886) D[Herrera-Moreno et al.,
2009]/ H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Dragmacidon lunaecharta
(Ridley and Dendy, 1886) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
►
As Pseudaxinella lunaecharta
Ptilocaulis spiculifer
(Lamarck, 1814)
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Ptilocaulis walpersi
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
D[NMNH, 2011;
NMNH32266]
Family Desmoxyidae
Myrmekioderma rea
(de Laubenfels, 1934) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986;
NMNH32265]
►
As
Myrmekioderma styx in both references
Family Dictyonellidae
Dyctionella funicularis
(Ruezler, 1981) D[Weil,
2006]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
►
As Ulosa funicularis in Weil (2006) and Scopalina funicularis in
Wilcox et al. (1989.
Scopalina hispida
(Hechtel, 1965) D[Williams et al., 1983]►
Scopalina
ruetzleri (Wiedenmayer,
1977) D[Rathe,
1981]
Svenzea zeai
(Álvarez, Soest and Rützler, 1998) D[P. Alcolado en Herrera-Moreno
et al., 2009]
Family
Halichondriidae
Axinyssa ambrosia
(de Laubenfels, 1954) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; MSNG47694]
►
Ciocalypta alleni
de Laubenfels, 1936 HI[Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864]►
As
Spongia cavernosa.
Reported to Santo Domingo Island and it is not clear the country of the record.
Didiscus
sp.
D[TNC,
2001]
Halichondria
melanadocia Laubenfels,
1936 D[CMC, 1994]
Hymeniacidon
caerulea Pulitzer-Finali,
1986 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Hymeniacidon heliophila
(Parker, 1910) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Topsentia ophiraphidites
(de Laubenfels, 1934) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; MSNG 47691]►
As Spongosorites sinuatus.
This material was included by Díaz et al. (1993) in their review of
Halichondrida
Order Haplosclerida
Family Callyspongiidae
Callyspongia
(Cladochalina) armigera
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864)
D[Weil, 2006]
Callyspongia
(Callyspongia) eschrichti Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864
H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]►
As
Callyspongia eschrichti
Callyspongia
(Callyspongia) fallax (Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979;
NMNH32261]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989; ZMA4456;
MCZ6468]►
As Siphonochalina bullata in MCZ
Callyspongia (Callyspongia) pallida Hetchel, 1965 D[CMC,
1994]
►
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) plicifera
(Lamarck, 1814) D[Rathe,
1981]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
►
As
Callyspongia plicifera in all references
Callyspongia (Callyspongia) simplex
Burton, 1956 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]►
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) tenerrima
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Rathe,
1981]
►
As Callyspongia tenerrima
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) vaginalis
(Lamarck, 1814) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989;
MCZ4517]
►
As
Callyspongia vaginalis in
Pulitzer-Finali (1986).
As Siphonochalina papyracea in
MCZ
Family Chalinidae ►
NMNH harbors with the number 22351 a specimen identified as Haliclona monticulosa but we have not included in this list. This species is of uncertain identity and
is not recognized in the current literature. The material in the collection can belong to any other species of Haliclona or other genera of Haplosclerida and
requires revision.
Chalinula molitba
(de Laubenfels, 1949) H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
Haliclona (Reniera) implexiformis
(Hechtel,1965) D[Weerdt
et al., 1991]►
As Haliclona implexiformis
Haliclona (Reniera) tubifera
(George and Wilson, 1919) D[Williams et al., 1983
NMNH32251]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]►
As
Haliclona hogarthi
in NMNH
Family Niphatidae
Aka coralliphaga
(Ruetzler, 1971)
D[Luczkovich, 1991]
Aka siphona
(Laubenfels, 1949) D[Williams et al., 1983]
Amphimedon caribica
(Pulitzer-Finali, 1986) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
►
Amphimedon compressa
Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864 HD[Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]►
As Spongia
rubens. Reported to Santo Domingo Island and it is not clear the country of the record.
Amphimedon erina
(Laubenfels, 1936) D[Weil,
2006]
Amphimedon viridis
Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864 D[Rathe,
1981]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
Cribrochalina infundibula
Schmidt, 1870 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
Niphates alba
Soest, 1980 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]►
As Protophlitaspongia antillana
Niphates amorpha
Wiedenmayer, 1977 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; MSNG 477018►
Pulitzer-Finali
(1986) reports Niphates amorpha and its possible synonym Gelliodes
sosuae
Niphates digitalis
Lamarck, 1814 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986;
NMNH32263]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Niphates erecta
Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al.,
1989]
Family Phloeodictyidae
Calyx podatypa
(de Laubenfels, 1934) D[Weil,
2006]
Oceanapia bartschi
(Laubenfels, 1934) D[CIBIMA,
1998]
Oceanapia nodosa
(George and Wilson, 1919) H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
Family
Petrosiidae
Petrosia (Petrosia)
weinbergi van Soest, 1980
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]
Petrosia
pellasarca (Laubenfels,
1934) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Xestospongia
muta (Schmidt, 1870)
D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Xestospongia
portoricensis van Soest,
1980 D[TNC, 2001]
Xestospongia
proxima (Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864)
D[Weil, 2006]
Xestospongia
wiedenmayeri Soest, 1980
D[CMC, 1994]
Xestospongia carbonaria
(Lamarck, 1813)
D[Weil, 2006;
NMNH32260]/
H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
Xestospongia
dominicana (Pulitzer-Finali,
1986)* D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; MSNG47703]
Xestospongia subtriangularis
(Duchassaing, 1850) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986]/ H[MCZ6445]►
As
Xestospongia subtriangularis in
Pulitzer-Final (1986).
As Schmidtia aulopora in MCZ
Order
Dictyoceratida
Family
Irciniidae
Hyrtios
proteus Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864
D[Weil, 2006]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
Hyrtios violaceus
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) D[Luczkovich, 1991]►
As Oligoceras
hemorrhages
Ircinia campana
(Lamarck, 1813) D[TNC,
2001]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Ircinia felix
(Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864) D[Rathe,
1981]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
Ircinia strobilina
(Lamarck, 1816) D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Smenospongia aurea
(Hyatt, 1875) D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986;
NMNH32264] /H[Hyatt, 1877]►
As
Stelospongos cribriformis in Hyatt (1877)
Smenospongia
conulosa Pulitzer-Finali,
1986 D[Pulitzer-Finali, 1986; Paratipo MSNG 47712]
Family
Spongiidae
Hyattella cavernosa
(Pallas, 1766)
D[Weil, 2006]/H[ZMA,
2011; ZMA15307]
►
As Hyattella
intestinalis in Weil (2006)
Spongia
(Spongia) tubulifera Lamarck, 1814 H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
►
Spongia obscura
Hyatt, 1877 D[Weil,
2006]
Spongia pertusa
Hyatt, 1877 D[Weil,
2006]
Spongia
(Spongia) graminea Hyatt, 1877 H[MCZ, 2011;
MCZ6525]
Hippospongia gossypina
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) H[Hyatt, 1877;
MCZ7165]
►
Aplysina fistularis
(Pallas, 1766) D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979]/H[Carter, 1879;
MCZ61]
►
As
Luffaria fistularis in Carter (1879).
As Verongia fistularis in MCZ
Aplysina fistularis
forma insularis
Duchassaing and
Michelotti, 1864 H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Aplysina fistularis
forma fulva
Pallas, 1766 D[Rathe,
1981]/H[Wilcox
et al., 1989]
Aplysina lacunosa
(Lamarck, 1814) D[Vicente
and Bonnelly, 1979]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Verongula
gigantea (Hyatt, 1875) D[Pulitzer-Finali,
1986]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Verongula
rigida (Esper, 1794) D[TNC,
2001]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Family Druinellidae
Aiolochroia crassa
(Hyatt, 1875) D[Pulitzer-Finali,
1986;
NMNH22352]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]►
As
Pseudoceratina crassa in Pulitzer-Finali (1986).
NMNH data locate this species as
Ianthella ardis
in
Haiti, but the geographic coordinates (19.16806 and -69.35694) correspond to the
Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition of
1933 in Samana
Bay, Dominican Republic
Class CALCAREA
Order Clathrinida
Family Clathrinidae
Clathrina coriacea
(Montagu, 1936) D[CMC,
1994]/H[Wilcox et al., 1989]
Order Leucosolenida
Family GrantiidaeLeucandra aspera
(Schmidt, 1862)
D[Weil, 2006]
Leucandra barbata
(Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864)
D[Weil, 2006;
NMNH22345]►
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RESUMEN.
Se ofrece una cronología histórica de las investigaciones sobre
esponjas de la Isla Hispaniola desde 1864 al presente. La
información proviene de resultados de expediciones y proyectos
nacionales e internacionales en más de 20 localidades, colecciones
de cinco museos que albergan unas 41 especies y más de 50
publicaciones taxonómicas y ecológicas. De este análisis se conocen
138 especies para la Hispaniola: 127 para República Dominicana (lo
cual ańade 102 especies al inventario nacional) y 63 para
Haití. Seis especies:
Axinella corrugata, Pseudotrachya amaza, Polymastia tenax,
Xestospongia dominicana, Prosuberites psammophilus y Ecionemia
dominicana tienen localidades tipo dominicanas. Las especies
compiladas son representativas de ecosistemas de manglares,
sustratos particulados con macrovegetación y/o pastos marinos y
arrecifes coralinos desde la orilla hasta unos 40 m de profundidad.
