TABLE 12. List of species recorded for the Eastern Brazil Ecoregion and other occurrences in the Brazilian coastal ecoregions and worldwide. *: new record for the Eastern Brazil Ecoregion. **: The record of Ascaltis reticulum in Brazil should be revised. Abbreviations = E: Eastern; FN and AR: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas; MV: Martin Vaz; N: Northern; NE: Northeastern; S: South; SE: Southeastern; SPSP; São Pedro and São Paulo; SW: Southwestern; W: Western.
Ecoregions/species Amazonia SPSP Islands FN and AR NE Brazil E Brazil Trindade e MV Islands SE Brazil Other Ecoregions References
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Amphoriscus synapta (Schmidt in Haeckel, 1872) X Haeckel 1872
Ascaltis reticulum ** (Schmidt, 1862) X S European Atlantic Shelf; W Mediterranean; Adriatic Sea Schmidt 1862; Borojević & Peixinho 1976; Borojević & Boury-Esnault 1987; Klautau & Valentine 2003
Ascandra alba Fonseca, Cóndor-Luján & Cavalcanti, 2023 X Fonseca et al . 2023
Ascandra polejaeffi sp. nov. X* X S Caribbean Klautau et al . 2013; present study
Ascandra ascandroides (Borojević, 1971) X X X S European Atlantic Shelf Borojević 1971; Borojević & Peixinho 1976; Klautau & Borojević 2001; Mothes & Lerner 1994
Ascandra atlantica (Thacker, 1908) X X X Cape Verde; St. Helena and Ascension Islands Thacker 1908; Borojević & Peixinho 1976; Goodwin et al . 2021; Muricy et al . 2024
Borojevia brasiliensis (Solé-Cava, Klautau, Boury-Esnault, Borojević & Thorpe, 1991) X X Borojević 1971; Solé-Cava et al. 1991
Borojevia tenuispinata Azevedo, Padua, Moraes, Rossi, Muricy & Klautau, 2017 X X S Caribbean Azevedo et al . 2017; Cóndor-Luján et al . 2018; Fonseca et al . 2023
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Published as part of Lopes, Matheus Vieira, Padua, André, Azevedo, Fernanda, Klautau, Michelle (2025). Integrative taxonomy of Calcarea (Porifera) from Espírito Santo, Eastern Brazil. Zootaxa 5618 (2): 151-205. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.2.1 on page 192