Cliona microstrongylata Carballo & Cruz-Barraza 2005
- Dataset
- Excavating sponges from the Pacific of Central America, descriptions and a faunistic record
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Hadromerida
- family
- Clionaidae
- genus
- Cliona
- species
- Cliona microstrongylata
biology_ecology
Ecology. Found in dead shells and coral skeleton of Pocillopora sp., between 3 and 8 m depth.
description
Excavation. Samples too small to assess bioerosion traces. Spicules. Megascleres slightly curved tylostyles, microscleres kidney- or C-shaped microstrongyles (Fig. 11). Tylostyle dimensions: 12 2 – 284 µm (x ̅ = 176.2, σ = 39.4) x 2.2 – 9.7 µm (x ̅ = 5.4, σ = 2.4). Microstrongyle dimensions: 14.9 – 29.7 µm (x ̅ = 20.7, σ = 4.7) x 2.6 – 16.6 µm (x ̅ = 7.4, σ = 4.2).
discussion
Remarks. Due to the characteristic kidney-shaped microstrongyles C. microstrongylata is easy to identify. It has only recently been described in detail (Carballo & Cruz-Barraza 2005), and we provided only a short taxonomic account to illustrate the present identification.
distribution
Distribution and previous records. The species was originally described (Carballo & Cruz-Barraza 2005) and was again observed from the Gulf of California (Carballo et al. 2008 b; Vega 2012). It is presently reported for the Pacific of El Salvador and Costa Rica (Fig. 12). This new record extends the distribution of this species.
materials_examined
Material examined. ICMYL. Cmi. 45. IB: Isla Bolaños, Bahía Salinas, Costa Rica, 8 m, 4. XII. 2012, coll. and det. Cristian Pacheco Solano. ICMYL. Cmi. 31. PL: Playa Mantas, Costa Rica, <3 m, 23. XII. 2012, coll. and det. Cristian Pacheco Solano. ICMYL. Cmi. 37. PL: Playa Mantas, Costa Rica, <3 m, 23. XII. 2012, coll. and det. Cristian Pacheco Solano. Los Cobanos, ICMARES. UES. CI. 70: Playa Las Veraneras, Los Cóbanos, El Salvador, <3 m, 25. X. 2016, coll. Alejandra Trejo, det. José Luis Carballo. External morphology. Endolithic sponge in alpha morphology. No observations available on distribution and sizes of papillae. Live color orange.