Igernella notabilis ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 )

Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, Zootaxa 5031 (1), pp. 1-112 : 81-82

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Igernella notabilis ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 )
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Igernella notabilis ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) View in CoL

Tables 6, 7; Figs. 74A–B View FIGURE 74 , 79D View FIGURE 79

Synonymy and references: Euryades notabilis Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864: 106) ; Darwinella joyeuxi Topsent (1889:17) ; Igernella notabilis: Muricy et al. (2011: 55) , Rützler et al. (2014: 96), Pérez et al. (2017: 9), and van Soest (2017: 18); Darwinella joyeuxi , Euryades notabilis , Igernella joyeuxi : see references compiled in Muricy et al. (2011: 55).

Type locality. St. Thomas .

Material examined. CNPGG-1133, Alacranes reef (22.3670°N, 89.6751°W), 12 m depth, coll. Patricia Gómez, 03 August 2012 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-1770, Sisal reef (21.4416°N, 90.2913°W), 12 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 24 January 2013 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2234, Triangulo Este reef (20.90°N, 92.2340°W), 10 m depth, coll. Deneb Ortigosa, 11 August 2017 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2244, CNPGG-2252, Triangulo Oeste reef (20.95178°N, 92.30963°W), 9–23 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 09 September 2017 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2295, Banco Obispo Norte reef (20.49111°N, 92.20296°W), 14 m depth, coll. Oscar Bocardo, 13 September 2017 GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Mexico ( Topsent 1889 as Darwinella joyeuxi ; current records), Bermuda ( Rützler et al. 2014) , Cuba ( Alcolado 2002), other countries in the Caribbean Sea; Guyana, and Brazil ( van Soest 2017).

Remarks. Only three species of Igernella have been reported worldwide: Igenella mirabilis Lévi 1961 from the Indo-Pacific, I. vansoesti Uriz & Maldonado 1996 from Cape Verde, and the current I. notabilis . We agree with the comment by van Soest (2017) on the need to verify the presence of I. vansoesti from Cape Verde reported in the GoM, since both materials differ in habit and skeletal measurements. Igernella notabilis has been reported in Campeche by Topsent (1889), and is a common species in the coral reefs of the area. The distinctive habit of the species in the GoM region was the presence of short tubes joined in a row, a common form in other parts of the Caribbean. There is only one report with encrusting shape 5 mm thick, due to its juvenile state ( Rutzler et al. 2014).

Order Dictyoceratida Minchin, 1900

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