Collecting information and identification of Artemisina (Porifera, Microcionidae) ...

• Main Authors: Rios, Pilar, Aguilar, Ricardo, Torriente, Ana, Muñoz, Araceli, Cristobo, Javier
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Latitude of event 2; Longitude of event 2; Station label; DEPTH, water; Campaign; Collection; Area/locality; Species; Type; Reference/source; Habitat; DATE/TIME; Platform; Sampling by diver; Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic SponGES; Ferrer; Muñoz; Ricardo; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.892371; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.892371

The present study describes Artemisina sponge grounds in Iberia Peninsula. A. transiens is a sponge described in 1890 by Topsent in Galicia (Spain); A. hispanica was also collected in the north of Spain by Ferrer-Hernández (1917); World Porifera Database (WPD) considers at the moment both mushroom-shaped species as synonyms (van Soest et al., 2018), but we have only been able to check the types of A. hispanica. The studied samples were collected in Somos Llungo station and they correspond clearly to those described as A. hispanica by Ferrer-Hernández (1917) and it presents differences in the skeleton with respet to description of A. transiens in the literture. There are no more records after 1917 and there are no data of ecological characterisation nor is there a detailed description of its skeletal composition with Scanning Electron Microscopy. In the previous records the formation of sponge grounds of these species was not known.Oceana, the largest international organization focused solely on protecting ... : Supplement to: Rios, Pilar; Aguilar, Ricardo; Torriente, Ana; Muñoz, Araceli; Cristobo, Javier (2018): Sponge grounds of Artemisina (Porifera, Demospongiae) in the Iberian Peninsula, ecological characterization by ROV techniques. Zootaxa, 4466(1), 95 ...