Marine sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the breakwaters of Tuxpan, Veracruz, with new records for Mexico
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The breakwaters are rocky structures that protect the coast and promote the establishment of diverse sessile organisms, like the marine sponges. The present study provides the first records of marine sponges that inhabit the breakwaters of Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico. In total, seven species of the Class Demospongiae were identified, of which, three are new records for Mexico and four are new records for the northern coast of Veracruz. These records contribute to the knowledge of marine biodiversity in Mexico.
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Fortunato, H. F. M., Pérez, T. & Lobo-Hadju, G. (2020). Morphological description of six species of Suberitida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the unexplored north-eastern of Brazil, with emphasis on two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000296
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Gómez, P. & Heras-Escutia, N. (2022). Porifera (Demospongiae) con nuevos registros para México. En: Hernández-Aguilera, J. L. & Arenas-Fuentes, V. (eds.) Ecología y el Antropoceno en el Arrecife: un elemento del complejo arrecifal veracruzano (115–147). Universidad Veracruzana, México.
Gómez-López, P. (2011). Esponjas marinas y de agua dulce (Porifera). En: Cruz-Angón, A. (ed.). La biodiversidad en Veracruz, estudio de estado (217–224). CONABIO, México.
Hadju, E., Peixinho, S. & Fernandez, J. C. C. (2011). Esponjas Marinhas da Bahia, Guia de campo e Laboratório. Serie Libros 45. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 276 pp.
Hooper, J. N. A. (2002). Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. In: Hooper, J.N.A., Van Soest R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (469–510).Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow.
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Little, F. J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George’s Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 11(2), 31–71.
López-Portillo, J., Moreno-Casasola, P., Silva R, Martínez, M. L., Jiménez-Orocio, O., Chávez, V., Mendoza-González, G., Cruz, C., Vázquez, G., Lithgow, D., García-Franco, J. G. & Castillo-Campos, G. (2023). La zona costera del municipio Tuxpan, Veracruz. INECOL, Veracruz, 80 pp.
Masi, B. P., Macedo, I. M. & Zalmon, I. R. (2009). Benthic community zonation in a breakwater on the north coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 52(3), 637–646.
Mateo-Cid, L. E., Mendoza-González, A. C., García-López, D. Y., Hernández-Casas, C. M. & Méndez-Guzmán, I. (2024). Diversidad de algas marinas bentónicas del litoral de Veracruz, México. Acta Botanica Mexicana, 131, e2316. https://doi.org/10.21829/abm131.2024.2316
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Quirós-Rodríguez, J. A., Medrano-Mangones, W. J. & Santafé-Patiño, G. G. (2017). Esponjas (Porifera: Demospongiae) de raíces sumergidas de Rhizophora mangle en la bahía de Cispatá, Córdoba, Caribe colombiano. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 88(1), 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2017.01.023
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Rützler, K. & Smith, K. P. (1992). Guide to the Western Atlantic species of Cinachyrella (Porifera: Tetillidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 105(1), 148–164.
Samaai, T., Turner, T. L., Kara, J., Yemane, D., Ngwakum, B. B., Payne, R. P. & Kerwath, S. (2022). Confirmation of the southern African distribution of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon pervelis (Montagu, 1814), in the context of its global dispersal. PeerJ, 10, e14388.
http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14388
Turner, T. (2020). The marine sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis is a globally-distributed exotic species. Aquatic Invasions, 15(4), 542–561. http://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2020.15.4.01
Ugalde, D., Fernandez, J. C. C., Gómez, P., Lobo-Hajdu, G. & Nuno-Simões. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the sourthen Gulf of Mexico coral reefs. Zootaxa, 5031(1), 1–112. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1
van Soest, R. W. M. (2017). Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. Zootaxa, 4217(1), 1–225. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1
van Soest, R., Carballo, J. L. & Hooper, J. (2012). Polyaxone monaxonids: revision of raspailiid sponges with polyactne megascleres (Cyamon and Trikentrion). Zookeys, 239, 1–70. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.239.3734
Vassallo, A., Dávila, Y., Luviano, N., Deneb-Amozurrutia, S., Vital, X. G., Conejeros, C. A., Vázquez, L. & Álvarez, F. (2014). Inventario de invertebrados de la zona rocosa intermareal de Montepío, Veracruz, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 85(2), 349–362.
https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.42628
Wilson, H. V. (1911). Development of sponges from dissociated tissue cells. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 30, 1–30.
Zea, S. & De Weerdt, W. (1999). Haliclona (Haliclona) epiphytica n. sp. (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida), a seaweed-dwelling sponge from the Colombian Caribbean. Beaufortia, 49(13), 171–176.
Amaro, M. & Ramírez, I. (2011). Nuevos registros de esponjas (Porifera) para el Golfo de Cariaco, Venezuela. Boletín del Instituto de Oceanografía Venezuela, 50(2), 133–147.
Arvizu-Coyotzi, J. K. (2019). Caracterización macrobentónica de la zona litoral entre punta Gorda a Antón Lizardo, Veracruz [Tesis de Maestría, Universidad Veracruzana]. https://www.uv.mx/veracruz/mep/files/2019/10/TesisExamenKarina.pdf
Cárdenas, P., Menegola, C., Rapp, H. T. & Díaz, M. C. (2009). Morphological description and DNA barcodes of shallow-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Bocas del Toro, Panama, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2276, 1–39.
Carter, H. J. (1879). Contributions to our knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3, 284–360.
Castellanos-Pérez, P. D. E. J., Vázquez-Maldonado, L. E., Ávila, E. & Cruz-Barraza, J. A. (2020). Diversity of mangrove rootdwelling sponges in a tropical coastal ecosystem in the Southern Gulf of Mexico region. Helgoland Marine Research, 74, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s10152-020-00545-6
Child, C. A. (1992). Shallow water Pycnogonida of the Gulf of Mexico. Florida Marine Research Institute, 9, 1–86.
Cruz-Barraza, J. A., Vega, C., Rützler, K. & Salas-Castañeda, M. (2020). Morphological and molecular taxonomy of Timea (Porifera: Timeidae) from the Gulf of Mexico with the description of a new species and re-description of T. hechteli. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531542000017X
David-Colón, J. D. & Marin-Casas, D. H. (2020). Poríferos asociados a rompeolas en el departamento de Sucre (Caribe colombiano). Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 44(173), 996–1007. https://doi.org/10.18257/raccefyn.1038
De la Cruz-Francisco, V., González -González, M. & Morales -Quijano, I. (2016). Faunística y distribución de Demospongiae: Porifera del Arrecife Enmedio, Sistema Arrecifal Lobos-Tuxpan, México. CICIMAR Oceánides, 31(1), 7–16.
https://doi.org/10.37543/oceanides.v31i1.155
De la Cruz-Francisco, V., Orduña-Medrano, R. E., Paredes-Flores, J. E., Vázquez-Estrada, R. I., González-González, M. & Flores-Galicia, L. (2017). Una aproximación a la florística y faunística de la costa rocosa El Pulpo, Cazones, Veracruz, México. CICIMAR Oceanides, 32, 39–58. https://doi.org/10.37543/oceanides.v32i1.195
de Voogd, N. J., Alvarez, B., Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., Díaz, M.-C., Dohrmann, M., Downey, R., Goodwin, C., Hajdu, E., Hooper, J. N. A., Kelly, M., Klautau, M., Lim, S. C., Manconi, R., Morrow, C., Pinheiro, U., Pisera, A. B., Ríos, P., Rützler, K., Schönberg, C., Turner, T., Vacelet, J., van Soest, R. W. M. & Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Hymeniacidon heliophila (Wilson, 1911). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132652 on 2024-08-14.
Díaz, M. C., Pomponi, S. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (1993) A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species. In: Uriz, M.-J. & Rützler, K. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. Scientia Marina, 57(4), 283–306.
Fortunato, H. F. M., Pérez, T. & Lobo-Hadju, G. (2020). Morphological description of six species of Suberitida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the unexplored north-eastern of Brazil, with emphasis on two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000296
García-López, D. Y., Mateo-Cid, L. E. & Mendoza-González, A. C. (2017). Nuevos registros y lista actualizada de las algas verdes (Chlorophyta) del litoral de Veracruz, México. Gayana Botánica, 74(1), 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-66432017005000104
Gómez, P. & Heras-Escutia, N. (2022). Porifera (Demospongiae) con nuevos registros para México. En: Hernández-Aguilera, J. L. & Arenas-Fuentes, V. (eds.) Ecología y el Antropoceno en el Arrecife: un elemento del complejo arrecifal veracruzano (115–147). Universidad Veracruzana, México.
Gómez-López, P. (2011). Esponjas marinas y de agua dulce (Porifera). En: Cruz-Angón, A. (ed.). La biodiversidad en Veracruz, estudio de estado (217–224). CONABIO, México.
Hadju, E., Peixinho, S. & Fernandez, J. C. C. (2011). Esponjas Marinhas da Bahia, Guia de campo e Laboratório. Serie Libros 45. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 276 pp.
Hooper, J. N. A. (2002). Family Raspailiidae Hentschel, 1923. In: Hooper, J.N.A., Van Soest R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (469–510).Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow.
Landa-Cansigno, C., Mateo-Cid, L. E., Mendoza-González, A. C. & Guerrero-Analco, J. A. (2019). Macroalgas marinas del litoral rocoso Neovolcánico de Veracruz, México. Acta Botánica Mexicana, 126, e1525. https://doi.org/10.21829/abm126.2019.1525
Little, F. J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George’s Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 11(2), 31–71.
López-Portillo, J., Moreno-Casasola, P., Silva R, Martínez, M. L., Jiménez-Orocio, O., Chávez, V., Mendoza-González, G., Cruz, C., Vázquez, G., Lithgow, D., García-Franco, J. G. & Castillo-Campos, G. (2023). La zona costera del municipio Tuxpan, Veracruz. INECOL, Veracruz, 80 pp.
Masi, B. P., Macedo, I. M. & Zalmon, I. R. (2009). Benthic community zonation in a breakwater on the north coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 52(3), 637–646.
Mateo-Cid, L. E., Mendoza-González, A. C., García-López, D. Y., Hernández-Casas, C. M. & Méndez-Guzmán, I. (2024). Diversidad de algas marinas bentónicas del litoral de Veracruz, México. Acta Botanica Mexicana, 131, e2316. https://doi.org/10.21829/abm131.2024.2316
Muricy, G., Lopes, D. A., Hajdu, E., Carvalho, M. S., Moraes, F. C., Klautau, M., Menegola, C. & Pinheiro, U. (2011) Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. Museu Nacional, Série Livros 46, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, pp. 1–300.
Quirós-Rodríguez, J. A., Medrano-Mangones, W. J. & Santafé-Patiño, G. G. (2017). Esponjas (Porifera: Demospongiae) de raíces sumergidas de Rhizophora mangle en la bahía de Cispatá, Córdoba, Caribe colombiano. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 88(1), 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2017.01.023
Rodríguez-Muñoz, S., Granados-Vargas, N. & De la Cruz-Francisco, V. (2023). Análisis de la comunidad vágil y sésil del intermareal rocoso de cazones, Veracruz, México. Novitates Caribaea, (22), 25–50. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.337
Rützler, K. & Smith, K. P. (1992). Guide to the Western Atlantic species of Cinachyrella (Porifera: Tetillidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 105(1), 148–164.
Samaai, T., Turner, T. L., Kara, J., Yemane, D., Ngwakum, B. B., Payne, R. P. & Kerwath, S. (2022). Confirmation of the southern African distribution of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon pervelis (Montagu, 1814), in the context of its global dispersal. PeerJ, 10, e14388.
http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14388
Turner, T. (2020). The marine sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis is a globally-distributed exotic species. Aquatic Invasions, 15(4), 542–561. http://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2020.15.4.01
Ugalde, D., Fernandez, J. C. C., Gómez, P., Lobo-Hajdu, G. & Nuno-Simões. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the sourthen Gulf of Mexico coral reefs. Zootaxa, 5031(1), 1–112. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1
van Soest, R. W. M. (2017). Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. Zootaxa, 4217(1), 1–225. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1
van Soest, R., Carballo, J. L. & Hooper, J. (2012). Polyaxone monaxonids: revision of raspailiid sponges with polyactne megascleres (Cyamon and Trikentrion). Zookeys, 239, 1–70. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.239.3734
Vassallo, A., Dávila, Y., Luviano, N., Deneb-Amozurrutia, S., Vital, X. G., Conejeros, C. A., Vázquez, L. & Álvarez, F. (2014). Inventario de invertebrados de la zona rocosa intermareal de Montepío, Veracruz, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 85(2), 349–362.
https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.42628
Wilson, H. V. (1911). Development of sponges from dissociated tissue cells. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 30, 1–30.
Zea, S. & De Weerdt, W. (1999). Haliclona (Haliclona) epiphytica n. sp. (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida), a seaweed-dwelling sponge from the Colombian Caribbean. Beaufortia, 49(13), 171–176.
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de la Cruz-Francisco, V. (2025). Marine sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the breakwaters of Tuxpan, Veracruz, with new records for Mexico. Novitates Caribaea, (25), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi25.366
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