A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India Author George, Anita M. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, 403 004, India & Queensland Museum, P. O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101, Australia Author Van Soest, Rob W. M. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. rob. vansoest @ naturalis. nl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4623 - 0093 Author Sluka, Robert D. A Rocha, 180 Piccadilly, London W 1 J 9 HF UK. bob. sluka @ arocha. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5747 - 0044 Author Lazarus, S. Institute for Environmental Research & Social Education, 14 Main St, Nesamony Nagar, TN 629 001 India. lazarus. lasu @ yahoo. com Corresponding author. anitageorge 2003 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4744 - 4069 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-25 4885 2 277 300 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.2.10 1175-5326 4296516 EC1CCF10-3E5F-4815-A393-AD9CF6B93C62

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Taxonomic details	Gulf of Mannar			Voucher numbers Station codes & Depth	Remarks
	Islands			(m, same depth from one location is not repeated)
	Q	R	S	ZMA.POR
Class Demospongiae Subclass Keratosa Order Dendroceratida Family Dictyodendrillidae
Spongionella nigra Dendy 1889 ^	x			17133 (G, 17 m), 17188 (I, 16 m), 19184 (E, 9 m), 19201 (C, 22 m), 19208 (D, 18 m), 17205 (N, Fish net-entangled~11 m, 2001)	New to west coast
Order Dictyoceratida Family Dysideidae
Dysidea cf. crassa				17135 (H, Fish net-entangled ~25 m, 2000)	New to India
Dysidea granulosa Bergquist, 1965 ^				19250 (A, 7 m), 19275, 19287 (B, 27 m), 19276, 19277, 19278 (D, 27 m) 19280, 19281, 19283 (C, 22 m & 28 m)	New to India
Lamellodysidea herbacea (Keller, 1889)	x			17155 (G, 20 m)	New to west coast
Euryspongia sp.				17161 (M, 22 m)	Potential new record
Family Irciniidae
Ircinia vallata (Dendy, 1887) ^				19210 (D, 22 m)	New to west coast
Ircinia aff. vallata		x		17147 (J, 11 m)	Potential new record
Family Spongiidae
Spongia (Spongia) ceylonensis ^				19246 (A, 36 m), 19257 (D, 27 m)	New to west coast
Spongia aff. ceylonensis	x		x	17162 (I, 20 m), 17164 (S, 5m),	Potential new record
Spongia (Spongia) sp.	x	x	x	17224 (Q, 6 m), 17225 (R, 4 m) 17226 (H, 16 m), 19259 (B, 32 m)	Potential new record
Hippospongia cf. densa Lendenfeld, 1889				17196 (I, washed ashore specimen, 1999)	New to India
Hyattella intestinalis ( Lamarck, 1814) ^		x		17187 (O, Net-entangled, 1999), 17198 (M, 20 m), 19258 (B, 23 m)	New to west coast
Hyattella aff. intestinalis	x			17142 (Q, 6 m), 17194 (I, 19 m)	Potential new record
Hyattella tubaria Lendenfeld, 1889	x		x	17151 (G, 14 m)	New to India
Hyattella sinuosa (Pallas, 1766)	x			17156 (Q, 7 m)	New to India
Hyattella cf. sinuosa	x			17132 (O, 17 m)	Potential new record
Hyattella aff. sinuosa	x	x		17139 (O, 12 m), 17221 (Q, 4 m)	Potential new record