Aplysina insularis

Min Depth

4 meters

Max Depth

8 meters

Overall Geographic Range

Bahamas, Caribbean

Habitat-Biology

coral reef

References

Green, G., L. E. Fuentes Velázquez, and P. Gómez López. 1986. Nuevos registros de Porífera del arrecife La Blanquilla, Veracruz, México. Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (Universidad Autónoma de México) 13: 127–146.
Green, G., P. Gomez, and G. J. Bakus. 1985. Antimicrobial and ichtyotoxic properties of marine sponges from Mexican waters. Pp. 109–114 in K. Rützler, ed. New Perspectives in Sponge Biology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Stinnett, T. L. 1989. Species composition and ecological zonation of the sponge fauna of Enmedio Reef, Veracruz, México. Master's Thesis, Division of Biology, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas. 23 pp.
Topsent, É. 1889. Quelques spongiaires du Banc de Campêche et de la Pointe-a-Pître. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 2: 30–52.
Topsent, É. 1894. Application de la taxonomie actuelle a une collection de spongiaires du Banc de Campêche et de la Guadeloupe décrite précédemment. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 7: 27–36.

Endnotes

Treated as Aplysina aerophoba Schmidt, 1862, by Topsent (1889, 1894); A. fistularis insularis (Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864) by Green et al. (1985, 1986) and Stinnett (1989).

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-13-2024.

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