Halichondria (Halichondria) cartilaginea (Esper, 1797)

Putra, Singgih Afifa, Ambo-Rappe, Rohani, Jompa, Jamaluddin & de Voogd, Nicole J., 2024, Preliminary study of marine sponges (Porifera) in the littoral of Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia, ZooKeys 1208, pp. 275-313 : 275-313

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1208.113603

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13151720

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scientific name

Halichondria (Halichondria) cartilaginea (Esper, 1797)
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Halichondria (Halichondria) cartilaginea (Esper, 1797) View in CoL

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Description.

Massive creeping growth form with upright branches (branching). These branches are irregular and form mats covering the substrate. Color bright green, flexible / cartilaginous. This species lives in association with Chlorophyta Cladophoropsis vaucheriiformis (Areschoug) Papenfuss, 1958 ( van Soest 1990). Spicules are only oxeas, 125.46–252.45 (191.40) × 4.03–7.40 (5.37) µm.

Distribution and ecology.

Currently this species is recorded from China, Vietnam, Malacca Strait, Banda Sea, and East African Coral Coast. According to the WPD checklist ( de Voogd et al. 2024), this is the first record from the Spermonde Archipelago, Badi Island; reef flat.