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Iotrochota nigra (Baer, 1906)

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

publication ID

 https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e120128

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13800920

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scientific name

 Iotrochota nigra (Baer, 1906)
status

 

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Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Iotrochota nigra ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Porifera; class: Demospongiae-Heteroscleromorpha; order: Poecilosclerida ; family: Iotrochotidae ; genus: Iotrochota ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Baer, 1906); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: North Male’, Vaavu, Laamu, Huvadhu, Addu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10; maximumDepthInMeters: 62; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Toufiek Samaai; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Description

Thickly-encrusting growth forms with numerous ostia evenly scattered over the sponge surface. Approximately 25 cm across. Colouration in dark grey and black tones (Fig. 26).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Poecilosclerida

Family

Iotrochotidae

Genus

Iotrochota

Specimens