Galapagos Species Database
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Acanthella saladinorum
Esponja, Sponge
This is a rare especies found at Charles Darwin Research Station monitoring site, Las Cuevas Norte of Floreana at depth of 18 m (Hickman, et al. 2021).
Named for Kenneth and Diane Saladin, who led student study groups to the Galápagos Islands starting in 2002, and who provided major funding for Galápagos conservation, research, and infrastructure projects over many years. Kenneth Saladin was Distinguished Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at Georgia College and regularly taught a class on Natural and Cultural History of the Galápagos Islands (Sim-Smith et al., 2021)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Class
Demospongiae
Order
Bubarida
Family
Dictyonellidae
Genus
Acanthella
Species
saladinorum
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: MCCDRS9418, Las Cuevas, Floreana Island, 1.262° S, 90.358° W, 18 m, 7 Feb 2004; Type locality: Las Cuevas, Floreana Island (Sim-Smith et al., 2021).
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (Sim-Smith et al., 2021)
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Sim-Amith, C. & Michelle, K. (2021) A field guide to Sponge of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia.
- 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.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- Sim-Smith, C. CLEVELAND HICKMAN, J. R., & Kelly, M. (2021) New shallow water sponges (Porifera) from the Gálapagos Islands Zootaxa, 5012(1), 1–71. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1
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"Galapagos Species Database, Acanthella saladinorum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18812. Accessed 2 November 2026.