Two new Mycale (Naviculina) Gray (Mycalidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) from the Paulista Biogeographic Province (Southwestern Atlantic)

Lerner, Cléa; Hajdu, Eduardo

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000100009

Abstract

Two new Mycale (Naviculiiia) Gray, 1867 are described, M. (N.) arcuiris sp. n. and M. (N.)purpurata sp. n., from the Paulista Biogeographic Province (Southwestern Atlantic). They both occur in the São Sebastião Channel area (São Paulo stale coast), the former extending its known distribution to "Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve" (Santa Catarina state coast). The new species are sibling and differ from each other by a series of very small traits, the most notorious being live-color: yellow, orange, green, white, grey and beige, always light, in M. (N.) arcuiris sp. n. and bordeaux in M. (N.) purpúrala sp. n. Both species are compared with other known M. (Naviculiiia). Mycale (Aegogropila) henlscheli Sim & Lee, 2001 is transferred to subgenus Naviculiiia and given a new name, viz. M. (N.) chungue nom. n., as the specific name was preoccupied by M. (Curmia) henlscheli Bergquist & Fromont, 1988. An identification key for all the species hitherto assigned to the subgenus is provided.

Porifera; taxonomy; Southwestern Atlantic; Mycale; Naviculiiia

Two new Mycale (Naviculina) Gray (Mycalidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) from the Paulista Biogeographic Province (Southwestern Atlantic)

Cléa Lerner^I; Eduardo Hajdu^II

^IMuseu de Ciências Naturais, Setor de Porifera, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul. Caixa Postal 1188, 90001-970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil E-mail: cblerner@portoweb.com.br

^IIMuseu Nacional, Departamento de Invertebrados, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. E-mail: hajdu@acd.ufrj.br

ABSTRACT

Two new Mycale (Naviculiiia) Gray, 1867 are described, M. (N.) arcuiris sp. n. and M. (N.)purpurata sp. n., from the Paulista Biogeographic Province (Southwestern Atlantic). They both occur in the São Sebastião Channel area (São Paulo stale coast), the former extending its known distribution to "Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve" (Santa Catarina state coast). The new species are sibling and differ from each other by a series of very small traits, the most notorious being live-color: yellow, orange, green, white, grey and beige, always light, in M. (N.) arcuiris sp. n. and bordeaux in M. (N.) purpúrala sp. n. Both species are compared with other known M. (Naviculiiia). Mycale (Aegogropila) henlscheli Sim & Lee, 2001 is transferred to subgenus Naviculiiia and given a new name, viz. M. (N.) chungue nom. n., as the specific name was preoccupied by M. (Curmia) henlscheli Bergquist & Fromont, 1988. An identification key for all the species hitherto assigned to the subgenus is provided.

Key words: Porifera, taxonomy, Southwestern Atlantic, Mycale, Naviculiiia

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. R.W.M. van Soest and D. Platvoet (ZMA-JEOL); A. Ribeiro, MV. Cruz and E. Mattos (USP-ZEISS); M. Attias and N. Rodrigues (UFRJ-JEOL); C.J. Mansan, M. Spadoni and L.M.G. Tavares (MCN/FZB-JEOL) are thanked for the provision of SEM facilities and technical support in SEM operation. C. Lerner is a PhD student at Universidade de São Paulo with a PhD Fellowship from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, São Paulo state, Brazil, Proc. 96/11786-8). E. Hajdu is thankful to Coordenadoria de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for a travel grant, to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for a research fellowship and travel grant, to Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) for research and travel grants, to FAPESP for a research grant, and to Fundação Universitária José Bonifácio (FUJB/UFRJ) for an infrastructure grant for the Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ.

Recebido em 15.XII.2000; aceito em 01.II.2002.

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[2] Carballo, J.L. & E. Hajdu. 1998. Micromorphology in Mycale taxonomy (Mycalidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae), with the description of two new micracanthoxea-bearing species. Contr. Zool. 67 (3): 187-95.

[3] Carter, H.J. 1882. Some sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum, described with general and classificatory remarks. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 9: 266-301, 346-368.

[4] Coelho, P.A. & Santos, M.F.B.A. dos. 1980. Zoogeografía marinha do Brasil. I. Considerações gerais sobre o método e aplicação a um grupo de crustáceos (Paguros: Crustacea Decapoda, Super-famílias Paguroideae Coenobitoidea). Bol. Inst. Oceanogr., São Paulo, 29 (2): 139-144.

[5] Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1867: 492-558.

[6] Haidu, E. 1994. A phylogenetic interpretation of hamacanthids (Demospongiae, Porifera) with a redescription of Hamacantha popana (De Laubenfels, 1935). Jour. Zool. 232: 61-77.

[7] ______. 1999. Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mycalids with anisochelae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida), and comments on the status of Naviculina Gray, 1867. Mem. Queens. Mus. 44: 225-238.

[8] Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida 2. Teil. In: W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer (Eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens 3 (10): 277-393.

[9] Hooper, J.N.A. & F. Wiedenmayer. 1994. Porifera, p. 1-624. In: A. Wells (Ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Melbourne, CSIRO, vol. 12.

[10] Iczn. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 304p.

[11] Mothes-de-Moraes, B. 1985. Sponges collected by the Oxford Diving Expedition, to the Cabo Frio Upwelling Area (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil). Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ. 20 (4): 227-237.

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[13] Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1996. Sponges from the Bismark Sea. Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova 60-61: 101-138.

[14] Sim, C.J. & K.J. Lee. 2001. Two new species of the genus Mycale (Poecilosclerida: Mycalidae) from Korea. Korean Jour. Biol. Sci. 5: 25-29.