Sponge Communities of Submarine Caves and Tunnels on the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Northeast Brazil
Added on 2024-04-16 13:23:48 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
New study in Fernando de Noronha Archipelago (Northeast Brazil), increased the number of sponge species known in this marine area from 29 to 69, highlighting the great richness of the sponge communities in these cryptic environments.
Submarine caves are important biodiversity reservoirs, but there is little information about the biota of marine caves in the Southwestern Atlantic. This work describes three submarine cavities and their sponge communities on the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago (Northeast Brazil), increasing the number of sponge species known in submarine cavities on Fernando de Noronha from 29 to 69, and highlighting the great richness of the sponge communities in these cryptic environments.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/12/4/657