Check List 21(2): 255-263, doi: 10.15560/21.2.255
Sponges (Porifera) associated with the decorator crab Macrocoeloma nodipes (Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867): three new records for Mexican waters
Pablo Alberto Hernández-Solis‡, Isabel Priego-Martínez§, Diana Ugalde|, Lorena Violeta León-Deniz§‡ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sisal, Mexico§ Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Corresponding author: Lorena Violeta León-Deniz ( lorena.leon@correo.uady.mx ) Academic editor: Luis Felipe Skinner © Pablo Alberto Hernández-Solis, Isabel Priego-Martínez, Diana Ugalde, Lorena Violeta León-Deniz. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Citation:
Hernández-Solis PA, Priego-Martínez I, Ugalde D, León-Deniz LV (2025) Sponges (Porifera) associated with the decorator crab Macrocoeloma nodipes (Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867): three new records for Mexican waters. Check List 21(2): 255-263. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.2.255 |  |
Abstract
Sponges and decapods share diverse ecological interactions, including epibiosis in which sponges colonize crab carapaces. We report three sponge species—Stelletta kallitetilla (Laubenfels, 1936), Hymeniacidon heliophila (Wilson, 1911), and Haliclona (Reniera) manglaris Alcolado, 1984—on the decorator crab Macrocoeloma nodipes (Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867) collected from the Campeche Bank (southern Gulf of Mexico), presenting new records for Mexican waters. Our research highlights the importance of describing ecologically associated species and offers insights into the presence of sponge species not previously reported in Mexico.
Keywords
Campeche Bank, ecological associations, epibiosis, Gulf of Mexico