Callyspongia ( Cladochalina ) armigera ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 )

Callyspongia ( Cladochalina) armigera ( Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) View in CoL

Tables 6, 7; Figs. 24A–D View FIGURE 24 , 36G–I View FIGURE 36

Synonymy and references: Tuba armigera Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864: 48) and Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Valentine (2002: 841) references therein; Callyspongia armigera: Gómez (2002: 87) , Callyspongia ( Cladochalina) armigera , Callyspongia ( Spinosella) vaginalis forma armigera: Green et al. (1986: 136) and Spinosella vaginalis forma armigera , see references compiled in Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Valentine (2002: 841); Callyspongia ( Cladochalina) armígera: van Soest (2017: 26) .

Type locality. St. Thomas .

Material examined. CNPGG-2179, Cayo Arcas reef ( 20.20433°N, 91.95999°W), 6 m depth, coll. Diana Ugal- de, 25 April 2018 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2223, Cayo Arcas reef ( 20.19963°N, 91.96680°W), 3.7 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 22 August 2018 GoogleMaps ; CNPGG-2394, CNPGG-2399, Hornos reef ( 19.190833°N, 96.11777°W), 2.2–2.4 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 27 August 2018 GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Mexico ( Green 1977; Green et al. 1986; Maas-Vargas 2004; Gómez 2011; De la Cruz-Francisco & Bandala-Pérez 2016; current records), Bermuda, Bahamas, US ( Florida: Wiedenmayer 1977), Cuba ( Alcolado 1976), other countries in the Caribbean Sea ( Zea 1987).

Remarks. Callyspongia ( C.) armigera is one of the most common species in the SGoM. Apart from being at Cayo Arcas, Campeche Bank (current records), it is frequently spotted in the Veracruz Reefs ( Green et al. 1986; Gómez 2007, 2011).