Catalogue of sponges, cnidarians, and echinoderms from Brazil based on a historical inventory of the Invertebrate Collection Paulo Young (CIPY)

Abstract

Scientific collections represent a highly relevant social legacy. They provide a source for research and production of human resources at several academic levels and play a key role for the preservation of biodiversity. The Invertebrate Collection Paulo Young (CIPY), held at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), contains one of the most complete collections of shallow water marine invertebrates from Northeastern Brazil. It contains about 18,000 catalogued samples, and circa 2-3 times more samples awaiting identification and registration. The samples were collected in a variety of natural and artificial marine environments (e. g., coastal reefs, mangroves, and shipwrecks). The main collection is subdivided into seven main groups (Porifera, Cnidaria, Mollusca, Annelida, Crustacea, Echinodermata, and Ascidiacea), and other smaller groups (Bryozoa, Echiura, Sipuncula, Pycnogonida, Enteropneusta, and marine Turbellaria). Using only identified and registered samples, we catalogued 285 species among the phyla Porifera (89 spp.), Cnidaria (93 spp.), and Echinodermata (103 spp.). The collection has 36 types of species (including three Porifera, one Cnidaria, and four Echinodermata). Considering its representativeness, this collection has a valuable record of Brazilian national marine diversity. Thus, the CIPY deserves to be known, recognized, and made available for study.

Echinoderms from Santa Catarina, southern Brazil: an update on biodiversity and distribution

“…In Santa Catarina, the starfish Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis was identified in 29 sites, recorded by 14 scientific references (Table 1). In Brazil, three Othilia species have been recorded, Othilia brasiliensis (Tommasi, 1970b;Hopkins et al, 2003;Netto et al, 2005;Lima & Fernandes, 2009;Gondim et al, 2011Gondim et al, , 2020Miranda et al, 2012;Ventura et al, 2013;Alitto et al, 2016), Othilia guyanensis (Hopkins et al, 2003;Mariante et al, 2010;Ventura et al, 2013) and Othilia echinophorus (Tommasi, 1970b;Alves & Cerqueira, 2000;Hopkins et al, 2003;Gondim et al, 2008Gondim et al, , 2011Gondim et al, , 2020Lima & Fernandes, 2009;Miranda et al, 2012;Ventura et al, 2013). However, according to the phylogenetic study by Lopes et al (2016), O. brasiliensis and O. guyanensis should be synonymized, and the status of O. echinophorus should be reviewed; the authors emphasize the large morphological variability and phenotypic plasticity of the genus Echinaster, and support the raise of the genus Othilia, previously demoted to subgenus (Clark & Tortonese, 1986).…”

Update on the distribution of Isaurus tuberculatus Gray, 1828 (Cnidaria, Zoantharia) and first insight into the microanatomy and cnidom of South Atlantic populations

“…This species was later recorded in Ceará (Morandini et al 2006;Rabelo and Matthews-Cascon 2007;Soares et al 2011). More recently, Gondim et al (2020) reviewed material deposited in the zoological collection at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and listed I. tuberculatus from several locations in Northeastern Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Bahia). None of these studies provided a complete description of the material.…”

“…This synonymization resulted in a pantropical geographic distribution of I. tuberculatus extending in the Pacific from Hawaii to Perth (Western Australia), and in the Atlantic northwards to Bermuda (Muirhead and Ryland 1985). Since Muirhead and Ryland's (1985), many new locations in the Atlantic have been reported: Ascension Island (Brown et al 2016), Brazil (Grohmann andPeixinho 1995;Soares et al 2011;Santos et al 2016;Gondim et al 2020), Canary Islands (Riera et al 2014;López et al 2019), Cape Verde (Reimer et al 2010), Cuba (Varela et al 2002;Diez and Campos-Castro 2016), Curaçao and Saint Eustatius (Montenegro et al 2020), Saint Helena (Santos et al 2019), Florida, USA (Reimer et al 2012), Caribbean Colombian and other areas in the Caribbean (Acosta et al 2005), São Tomé and Principe (Wirtz 2018), andMexican Caribbean (Fautin andDaly 2009). In the Indo-Pacific, additional locations have been reported from Palau (Santos and Reimer 2018), India (Khushali et al 2014;Kumari et al 2017), Taiwan (Reimer et al 2011b), Hawaii (Forsman et al 2012), Vietnam (Reimer et al 2015), Indonesia (Sinniger et al 2005), New Caledonia (Laboute and Richer de Forges 2004), Moluccas and Lembeh Strait (Reimer et al 2014), Gaum (Paulay et al 2003), and Japan (Reimer et al 2008a), and in the Indian Ocean, from the east coast of South Africa (Risi 2014;Risi and Macdonald 2015).…”

Catalogue of living crinoids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from Brazil

“…Brazilian localities. Maranhão, Ceará, Paraíba, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, and Paraná (Tommasi , 1965(Tommasi , 1985Lima-Verde 1969;Young 1986;Tommasi & Aron 1987;Tommasi et al 1988a;Oliveira et al 2010;Gondim et al 2020; IZ Dabase).…”

“…Brazilian localities. Pará, Maranhão, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, and Santa Catarina (A.H. Clark 1947;Tommasi 1957;Lima-Verde 1969;Gondim et al 2011Gondim et al , 2020Miranda et al 2012;Guimarães et al 2018. IZ Database; current study).…”