A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India

Abstract

An inventory of sponges from the shallow subtidal reefs of the west and east coasts of southern India is presented. The specimens offered in this paper were based on in-situ collections unlike the previous records of dry and net-entangled collections. A total of 101 species belonging to 12 orders, 22 families, 5 subfamilies and 44 genera from 4 subclasses of Class Demospongiae and one species from Class Calcarea are recorded. We recorded 18 new records to India, six new species combinations, 37 potential new records, and 40 species for the first time from the southwest coast.

Integrative taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean

“…Ecoregion -Salomon, Chagos Archipelago (Dendy, 1913); Houtman Ecoregion -Houtman Abrolhos (Dendy & Frederick, 1924); Maldives Ecoregion -Maldives (Wörheide et al, 2008;Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018;Pasnin et al, 2020); Arabian (Persian) Gulf Ecoregion -Red Sea (Wörheide et al, 2008;Voigt et al, 2012;Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018;Pasnin et al, 2020); India (Van Soest & De Voogd, 2018;George et al, 2020) & De Voogd, 2018;Pasnin et al, 2020); La Réunion (Trentin & Massé, 2018;Pasnin et al, 2020). PACIFIC OCEAN: Banda Sea Ecoregion -Indonesia; Sulawesi Sea Ecoregion -Sulawesi; Lesser Sunda Ecoregion -Bali (Wörheide et al, 2002(Wörheide et al, , 2008Pasnin et al, 2020); Eastern Philippines Ecoregion -Philippines (Wörheide et al, 2008;Voigt et al, 2012;Van Soest & De Voogd, 2015Pasnin et al, 2020); Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Tweed Moreton Ecoregion -Queensland, Australia (Wörheide & Hooper, 1999;Wörheide et al, 2002Wörheide et al, , 2004Wörheide et al, , 2005Wörheide et al, , 2008Voigt et al, 2012;Pasnin et al, 2020); Mariana Islands Ecoregion -Guam, South Kuroshio Ecoregion -Taiwan; Central Kuroshio Current Ecoregion -Japan (Wörheide et al, 2002(Wörheide et al, , 2008Pasnin et al, 2020); Bismarck Sea Ecoregion and Solomon Sea Ecoregion -Papua New Guinea, West Caroline Islands Ecoregion -Palau Islands (Wörheide et al, 2002(Wörheide et...…”

A checklist of the southwestern Madagascar sponge fauna with taxonomic updates based on the current systematics

“…Given the extent of Madagascar and the latitudes covered, the inventory undertaken in Toliara suggests a high potential for new discoveries. Indeed, the Toliara region alone has 2.5 times the number of species of the Indian Peninsula(George et al, 2020). However, when compared to other regions where extensive sampling has been undertaken, sponge diversity in the Toliara region appears to be quite low, accounting for only a fifth of North Western Australia's sponge biodiversity(Fromont et al, 2016), for example.…”