Clathria sp.

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

Clathria sp. indet. 1

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Clathria sp. 1 ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Porifera; class: Demospongiae-Heteroscleromorpha; order: Poecilosclerida ; family: Microcionidae ; genus: Clathria ; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: North Male’, Laamu, Addu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 26; maximumDepthInMeters: 30; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Toufiek Samaai; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation