Amorphinopsis atlantica Carvalho, Hajdu, Mothes & van Soest, 2004

Veloso-Junior, Vanderlei C., Pinto, Danilo P., Da Silva, Eduardo M., Neves, Elizabeth, Santana, José C. & Menegola, Carla, 2023, First record of Amorphinopsis atlantica (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halicondriidae) in the Paraguaçu River estuary: Is its presence an invasion or an adaptation to changing environmental conditions?, Zootaxa 5351 (4), pp. 467-474 : 469

Amorphinopsis atlantica Carvalho, Hajdu, Mothes & van Soest, 2004

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Material examined. UFBAPOR 5019, Iguape Bay / Paraguaçu River estuary, Cachoeira (Bahia, Brazil), (12°40ʹ26″ S; 38°51ʹ24″ W); on mud, 0.0 m depth; coll. V. C. Veloso-Junior (13.XI.2019); specimen measurements: 55 mm length, 46 mm width, and 60 mm thickness. UFBAPOR 5020, Iguape Bay / Paraguaçu River estuary, Cachoeira (Bahia, Brazil) (12°40ʹ26″ S; 38°51ʹ24″ W); pneumatophores and rhizophores of mangrove trees, 0.0 m depth; coll. V. C. Veloso-Junior (13.XI.2019); specimen measurements: 132 mm length, 52 mm width, and 47 mm thickness. UFBAPOR 5021, Iguape Bay / Paraguaçu River estuary, Cachoeira (Bahia, Brazil) (12°40ʹ26″ S; 38°51ʹ24″ W); wood fish trap, 0.0 m depth; coll. V. C. Veloso-Junior (13.XI.2019); specimen measurements: 73 mm length, 74 mm width, and 36 mm thickness .

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FIGURE 3. Specimen of Amorphinopsis atlantica from Iguape Bay. White scale bar = 5 cm.