Aguilar, R.; López Correa, M.; Calcinai, B.; Pastor, X.; De La Torriente, A.; Garcia, S. (2011). First records of Asbestopluma hypogea Vacelet and Boury-Esnault, 1996 (Porifera, Demospongiae Cladorhizidae) on seamounts and in bathyal settings of the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa. 2925: 33–40.

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Aguilar, R.; López Correa, M.; Calcinai, B.; Pastor, X.; De La Torriente, A.; Garcia, S.

2011

2925: 33–40

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The carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma hypogea, was known only from shallow submarine caves (-15 to -26 m) in the Western Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic. Herein A. hypogea is reported from outside of caves, on seamounts in the Alboran Sea (-167 m), off the Balearics (-100 m) and north off Sicily (-660 m), and along steep bathyal escarpments in the Strait of Sicily (~700 m). These deeper ROV-based findings of A. hypogea are conform to the typical deep-sea occurrence of the Cladorhizidae.

Mediterranean

Ecology
Underground and Cave habitats

Porifera

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