Sandford, F.; Kelly-Borges, M. 1997. Redescription of the hermitcrab sponge Spongosorites suberitoides Díaz, Pomponi and van Soest (Demospongiae: Halichondrida: Halichondriidae). Journal of Natural History 31(3): 315-328.

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Sandford, F.; Kelly-Borges, M.

1997

31(3): 315-328

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The sponge partner in a little-known halichondrid sponge-hermit crab association, located in the northeast corner of the Gulf of Mexico, has been identified, and compared with sponges in similar associations from the western Atlantic and other locations. Examination of new material coupled with ecological information has resulted in a redescriplion of Spongosorites suberitoides, originally described from North Carolina and Venezuela. The systematic position and evolutionary convergence of association with hermit crabs in suberitid and halichondrid sponges is discussed.

Western Atlantic warm temperate to tropical

Systematics, Taxonomy

Porifera

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