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Issue: Vol. 5627 No. 1: 24 Apr. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-04-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.1.5
Page range: 147-164
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Chalinula tamoiensis sp. nov. (Porifera: Haplosclerida Chalinidae), a new species from Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro state

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524—PHLC–5º andar, sala 520. 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524—PHLC–5º andar, sala 520. 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Porifera Marine biodiversity rocky coast integrative taxonomy South-eastern Brazil Ecoregion 28S rDNA

Abstract

In the present study, we describe a new species belonging to the genus Chalinula from Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro state, off Southeast Brazil. Chalinula tamoiensis sp. nov. is thinly to thickly encrusting, purple or pink coloured in life, with oscules raised in volcano shaped projections or more commonly flush with the surface, in thinly encrusting specimens. Skeleton typically anisotropic, with variable amounts of spongin and oxeas ranging from 59 to 90 µm long. Maximum likelihood analyses of large ribosomal subunit DNA (28S rRNA) recovered Chalinula polyphyletic. Chalinula tamoiensis sp. nov. clustered with a subset of species from other ocean basins and was distantly related to Chalinula molitba, from the Tropical Western Atlantic and Chalinula nematifera, from the Central Western Pacific, with which it shares a series of traits. A summary of morphological characters of all species belonging to the genus and new sequences of the larger ribosomal subunit DNA are also provided.

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How to Cite

Luna, T., Bispo, A. & Esteves, E.L. (2025) Chalinula tamoiensis sp. nov. (Porifera: Haplosclerida Chalinidae), a new species from Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro state. Zootaxa, 5627 (1), 147–164. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5627.1.5