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Rasbold GG, Calheira L, Domingos-Luz L, Pessenda LCR, Pinheiro U, McGlue MM. A morphological guide of neotropical freshwater sponge spicules for paleolimnological studies. Front Ecol Evol 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1067432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillida) are sessile invertebrates with skeletons composed of siliceous elements termed spicules. Sponge spicules (megascleres, microscleres, and gemmuloscleres) are characterized by widely varying sizes and shapes. These spicules are well-preserved in lacustrine, wetland, and riverine sediments and hold significant ecological and limnological information that can be applied as diagnostic tools in reconstructions of Quaternary environments. However, problems with taxonomy and the absence of systematic guidelines and standards of identification represent major challenges to utilizing freshwater sponges as a paleo-proxy. Here, we present a well-illustrated extraction protocol and morphological guide to the Neotropical freshwater sponge fauna. This guide is intended to introduce researchers and students to the study of freshwater sponges and their use as a diagnostic tool in paleoecology and paleolimnology.
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Briceño M, Mérida JE, Andino-Mazariegos A, Cruz GA. A new neotropical and southernmost distributional record of freshwater sponge dosilia radiospiculata (Mills, 1888) (Porifera: Demospongie: Spongillidae) from Honduras. NEOTROPICAL BIODIVERSITY 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2022.2064694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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- Monshie Briceño
- Student Escuela de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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- Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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- Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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- Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Sokolova AM, Palatov DM, Masuda Y, Itskovich VB. Investigation of the spongillid Spongilla alba Carter, 1849 reveals a new group of brackish-water sponges. SYST BIODIVERS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1958948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Agniya M. Sokolova
- N. K. Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Science, Vavilova str., 26, Moscow, 119334, Russia
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- A. N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Science, Leninskij prosp. 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia
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- Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, 288 Matsushima, Kurashiki, 701-0193, Okayama, Japan
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- Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Ulan-Batorskaya, 3, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
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Rogers DC, Cruz-Rivera E. A preliminary survey of the inland aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. J NAT HIST 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1923850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- D. Christopher Rogers
- Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, VI, USVI
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Gómez P, Carballo JL, Cruz-Barraza JA, Camacho-Cancino M. On the genus Racekiela in Mexico: molecular and morphological description of Racekiela cresciscrystae n. sp. J NAT HIST 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1637475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Patricia Gómez
- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (UNAM), Circuito Exterior S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México C.P. 04510
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n, Mazatlán (SIN) México CP 82000
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n, Mazatlán (SIN) México CP 82000
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (UNAM), Circuito Exterior S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México C.P. 04510
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Carballo JL, Cruz-Barraza JA, Yáñez B, Gómez P. Taxonomy and molecular systematic position of freshwater genus Racekiela (Porifera: Spongillida) with the description of a new species from North-west Mexico. SYST BIODIVERS 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1359216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- José L. Carballo
- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n. Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlán 82000, México
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n. Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlán 82000, México
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n. Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlán 82000, México
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Circuito Exterior S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, D.F. México C.P. 04510
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Pisera A, Manconi R, Siver PA, Wolfe AP. The sponge genus Ephydatia from the high-latitude middle Eocene: environmental and evolutionary significance. PALAONTOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT 2016; 90:673-680. [PMID: 28615751 PMCID: PMC5445566 DOI: 10.1007/s12542-016-0328-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The freshwater sponge species Ephydatia cf. facunda Weltner, 1895 (Spongillida, Spongillidae) is reported for the first time as a fossil from middle Eocene lake sediments of the Giraffe kimberlite maar in northern Canada. The sponge is represented by birotule gemmuloscleres as well as oxea megascleres. Today, E. facunda inhabits warm-water bodies, so its presence in the Giraffe locality provides evidence of a warm climate at high latitudes during the middle Eocene. The morphological similarity of the birotules to modern conspecific forms suggests protracted morphological stasis, comparable to that reported for other siliceous microfossils from the same locality.
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- Andrzej Pisera
- Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio (DIPNET), Università di Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
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- Botany Department, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 Canada
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Nichols HT, Bonner TH. First record and habitat associations of Spongilla cenota(Class Demospongiae) within streams of the Edwards Plateau, Texas, USA. SOUTHWEST NAT 2014. [DOI: 10.1894/fgr-04.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cárdenas P, Pérez T, Boury-Esnault N. Sponge systematics facing new challenges. ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY 2012; 61:79-209. [PMID: 22560778 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-387787-1.00010-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Systematics is nowadays facing new challenges with the introduction of new concepts and new techniques. Compared to most other phyla, phylogenetic relationships among sponges are still largely unresolved. In the past 10 years, the classical taxonomy has been completely overturned and a review of the state of the art appears necessary. The field of taxonomy remains a prominent discipline of sponge research and studies related to sponge systematics were in greater number in the Eighth World Sponge Conference (Girona, Spain, September 2010) than in any previous world sponge conferences. To understand the state of this rapidly growing field, this chapter proposes to review studies, mainly from the past decade, in sponge taxonomy, nomenclature and phylogeny. In a first part, we analyse the reasons of the current success of this field. In a second part, we establish the current sponge systematics theoretical framework, with the use of (1) cladistics, (2) different codes of nomenclature (PhyloCode vs. Linnaean system) and (3) integrative taxonomy. Sponges are infamous for their lack of characters. However, by listing and discussing in a third part all characters available to taxonomists, we show how diverse characters are and that new ones are being used and tested, while old ones should be revisited. We then review the systematics of the four main classes of sponges (Hexactinellida, Calcispongiae, Homoscleromorpha and Demospongiae), each time focusing on current issues and case studies. We present a review of the taxonomic changes since the publication of the Systema Porifera (2002), and point to problems a sponge taxonomist is still faced with nowadays. To conclude, we make a series of proposals for the future of sponge systematics. In the light of recent studies, we establish a series of taxonomic changes that the sponge community may be ready to accept. We also propose a series of sponge new names and definitions following the PhyloCode. The issue of phantom species (potential new species revealed by molecular studies) is raised, and we show how they could be dealt with. Finally, we present a general strategy to help us succeed in building a Porifera tree along with the corresponding revised Porifera classification.
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- P Cárdenas
- Département Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7208 "BOrEA", Paris, France
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Cândido JL, Volkmer-Ribeiro C, Fürstenau-Oliveira K. Dosilia (Porifera, Demospongiae) redefined. IHERINGIA. SERIE ZOOLOGIA 2010. [DOI: 10.1590/s0073-47212010000400017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dosilia plumosa (Carter, 1849), type species of the genus, and D. brouni (Kirkpatrick, 1906), with distribution respectively in the Oriental and Ethiopic regions, are revised based on a SEM analysis of spicules, gemmules and skeletal structure. The lectotype here designated for D. plumosa is illustrated as well as the holotype by monotypy determined for D. brouni. Dosilia palmeri (Potts, 1885) and D. radiospiculata (Mills, 1888) distributed in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions and D. pydanieli Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1992, found in the Neotropical region, are revised based on a SEM analysis of spicules, gemules and skeletal structure. The holotype by monotypy is determined for D. radiospiculata. Heteromeyenia plumosa Weltner,1895 is synonymyzed with D. radiospiculata. Upon the revision of its five species, the genus is redefined and a key presented.
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Volkmer-Ribeiro C, Machado VDS. Freshwater sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae) in a benthic filter feeding community at the Guanacaste Dry Forest, Costa Rica. IHERINGIA. SERIE ZOOLOGIA 2009. [DOI: 10.1590/s0073-47212009000400001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The freshwater sponges Trochospongilla variabilis Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago (1973), Radiospongilla crateriformis (Potts, 1882), Spongilla cenota Penney & Racek (1968) and Corvoheteromeyenia heterosclera (Ezcurra de Drago, 1974) compose with the sphaerid bivalve Eupera cubensis (Prime, 1865) and several Phylactolaemata bryozoans a benthic filter feeding community living in seasonal lentic and lotic habitats with high Particulate Organic Carbon (POC), low conductivity and acid pH within the Costa Rica Dry Forest biome. The sponge specimens gathered led to the re-description of the four species.
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