Poorly Known Sponges in the Mediterranean with the Detection of Some Taxonomic Inconsistencies
Journal of the Marine Poorly known sponges in the Mediterranean Biological Association of the United Kingdom with the detection of some taxonomic inconsistencies cambridge.org/mbi Julio A. Díaz1,4 , Sergio Ramírez-Amaro1,2, Francesc Ordines1 , Paco Cárdenas3 , Pere Ferriol4, Bàrbara Terrasa2 and Enric Massutí1 Original Article 1Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears, Moll de Ponent s/n, 07015 Palma, Spain; 2Laboratori de Genètica, Biology Department, University of the Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5, Cite this article: Díaz JA, Ramírez-Amaro S, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; 3Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, BioMedical Centre, Ordines F, Cárdenas P, Ferriol P, Terrasa B, 4 Massutí E (2020). Poorly known sponges in the Husargatan 3. Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden and Interdisciplinary Ecology Group, Biology Mediterranean with the detection of some Department, University of the Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain taxonomic inconsistencies. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Abstract Kingdom 100, 1247–1260. https://doi.org/ 10.1017/S0025315420001071 The poorly known sponge species Axinella vellerea (Topsent, 1904), Acarnus levii (Vacelet, 1960) and Haliclona poecillastroides (Vacelet, 1969) are reported from bottom-trawl samples Received: 16 July 2020 off the Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean. A re-description is provided for all three spe- Revised: 7 September 2020 Accepted: 21 October 2020 cies and the Folmer fragment of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) obtained for A. levii and First published online: 10 December 2020 H. poecillastroides. This is the second report of A. vellerea in the Mediterranean, the first time that A.
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