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Sponges in Alacranes Reef National Park (ARNP), Gulf of Mexico, Mexico

Description

Counts of 41 species of sponges in 36 transects of 20 m * 1 m across 8 sites around ARNP

Usage

data("sponges")

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 42 variables.

site

Factor w/ 6 levels

Agelas.clathrodes

a numeric vector

Agelas.dispar

a numeric vector

Agelas.tubulata

a numeric vector

Agelas.wiedenmayeri

a numeric vector

Aiolocroia.crassa

a numeric vector

Amphimedon.copressa

a numeric vector

Aplysina.archeri

a numeric vector

Aplysina.cauliformis

a numeric vector

Aplysina.fistularis

a numeric vector

Aplysina.fulva

a numeric vector

Aplysina.insularis

a numeric vector

Aplysina.lacunosa

a numeric vector

Callyspongia.plicifera

a numeric vector

Callyspongia.vaginalis

a numeric vector

Callispongia.fallax

a numeric vector

Callispongia.armigera

a numeric vector

Cliona.delitrix

a numeric vector

Cliona.varians

a numeric vector

Cribochalina.vascolum

a numeric vector

Dragmacidon.sp.

a numeric vector

Dysidea.variabilis

a numeric vector

Ectyoplasia.ferox

a numeric vector

Geodia.neptuni

a numeric vector

Hymeniacidon.caerulea

a numeric vector

Iotrochota.birotulata

a numeric vector

Igernella.notabilis

a numeric vector

Ircinia.felix

a numeric vector

Ircinia.strobilina

a numeric vector

Monanchora.arbuscula

a numeric vector

Mycale.laxissima

a numeric vector

Mycale.laevis

a numeric vector

Nipahtes.amorpha

a numeric vector

Niphates.erecta

a numeric vector

Niphathes.digitalis

a numeric vector

Phorbas.amaranthus

a numeric vector

Scopalina.rutzleri

a numeric vector

Svenezea.flava

a numeric vector

Spirastrella.coccinea

a numeric vector

Verongula.reswigui

a numeric vector

Verongula.rigida

a numeric vector

Xestospongia.muta

a numeric vector

Details

This data corresponds to a pilot study about sponge biodiversity in reef habitats in the Yucatán shelf (Ugalde et al., 2015)

Source

https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3911.2.1

References

Ugalde, D., Gomez, P., & Simoes, N. (2015). Marine sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Gulf of Mexico, new records and redescription of Erylus trisphaerus (de Laubenfels, 1953). Zootaxa, 3911(2), 151-183.

Examples

data(sponges)
str(sponges)

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