Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Holotype: USNM 39740, slides and fragments ZMA POR 11253, MHNG 21052; Type Locality: off Seymour Islands: Paratype: ZMA POR 11254, slides and fragments MHNG 20770, Albemarle (Isabela) Island (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997).

Origin: Endemic

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

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

• 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.