Strongylacidon bermuda

Strongylacidon bermuda (de Laubenfels, 1950) Tables 6, 7; Figs. 48A–B, 58C Synonymy and references: Fibulia bermuda de Laubenfels (1950: 52); Ulosa bermuda Rützler (1986: 121); Fibulia aff. bermuda and S trongylacidon aff. bermuda, Muricy et al. (2011: 190); Strongylacidon bermudae, Menegola et al. (2011: 4); Strongylacidon bermuda: Ugalde et al. (2015: 163). Type locality. Bermuda. Material examined. CNPGG-2170, Cayo Arcas reef (20.19491°N, 91.95741°W), 10 m depth, coll. Diana Ugalde, 25 April 2018. Distribution. Mexico (Ugalde et al. 2015; current records), Bermuda (de Laubenfels, 1950). Remarks. Strongylacidon bermuda has previous records from Bermuda; viz., de Laubenfels (1950); as Fibulia bermuda, and Rutzler (1986); as Ulosa bermuda. It has recently been recorded for the SGoM by Ugalde et al. (2015), particularly in Alacranes reef, at 5 m depth. Apparently, it is relatively common in Bermuda, but it is rare in the GoM and was never recorded previously in the Caribbean Sea. It is certainly a shallow-water species since all previous species’ records were taken at 3–5 m depth. The current record is from 10 m.
Published as part of Ugalde, Diana, Fernandez, Julio C. C., Gómez, Patricia, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele & Simões, Nuno, 2021, An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern Gulf of Mexico coral reefs, pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 5031 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5454380
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