Redescription of the hermit-crab sponge Spongosorites suberitoides Diaz, Pomponi and van Soest (Demospongiae: Halichondrida: Halichondriidae)

The sponge partner in a little-known halichondrid sponge-hermit crab association, located in the northeast corner of the Gulf of Mexico, has been identified, and compared with sponges in similar associations from the western Atlantic and other locations. Examination of new material coupled with ecological information has resulted in a redescription of Spongosorites suberitoides, originally described from North Carolina and Venezuela. The systematic position and evolutionary convergence of association with hermit crabs in suberitid and halichondrid sponges is discussed.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Oceanographic Literature Review

• Publication date

  1997-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/00222939700770161
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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