Galapagos Species Database

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Guitarra abbotti Lee, 1987

Esponja, Sponge

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Porifera

Class
Demospongiae

Order
Poecilosclerida

Family
Guitarridae

Genus
Guitarra

Species
abbotti

Taxon category: Accepted

Holotype: USNM 43175, Slides and fragments ZMA POR 11245, MHNG 18822 (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Isabela Galapagos Islands (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997)

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Desqeyroux-Faundez, R., Van Soest, R.W.M. (1997) Shallow-water Demosponges of the Galapagos Islands. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 104(2): 379-467.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Guitarra abbotti", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16351. Accessed 31 October 2026.