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Agelas cerebrum

Agelas cervicornis

Agelas citrina

Agelas clathrodes

Agelas conifera

Agelas dilatata

Agelas dispar

Agelas sceptrum

Agelas schmidti

Agelas sventres

Agelas tubulata

Agelas wiedenmayeri

Ceratoporella nicholsoni

Asteropus niger

Stelletta kallitetilla

Stelletta pudica

Erylus formosus

Geodia sp.-"Biscayne Bay"

Geodia aff. corticostylifera

Geodia aff. gibberosa sp.4-"melon"

Geodia aff. gibberosa sp.5

Geodia neptuni

Geodia papyracea

Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus

Chondrilla sp.-"cave, grayish morphotype"

Chondrilla caribensis forma caribensis

Chondrilla caribensis forma hermatypica

Chondrosia "reniformis"

Chondrosia collectrix

Chelonaplysilla "erecta"

Igernella notabilis

Dysidea etheria

Dysidea janiae

Dysidea? sp.

Pleraplysilla sp.

Ircinia sp.-"black and smooth morphotype"

Ircinia sp.-"creamy/dirty morphotype"

Ircinia sp.-"tigrina morphotype"

Ircinia campana

Ircinia felix -"brown, dark oscules, massive morphotype"

Ircinia felix -"whitish, dark oscules, sprawling morphotype"

Ircinia strobilina

Hyattella cavernosa

Spongia "obscura" -"shaggy"

Spongia "obscura" -"smooth"

Spongia "tubulifera" -"fouled"

Hyrtios sp.-"gray amphora"

Hyrtios cavernosus

Hyrtios proteus

Hyrtios violaceus

Hyrtios? sp.

Smenospongia sp.-"black massive"

Smenospongia sp.-"parrot green"

Smenospongia aurea

Smenospongia conulosa

Cervicornia cuspidifera

Cliona sp.-"amber papillae"

Cliona sp.-"orange crust"

Cliona ?peponaca

Cliona aprica

Cliona caribbaea

Cliona delitrix

Cliona schmidti

Cliona tenuis

Cliona varians

Cliona vermifera

Pione lampa

Spheciospongia vesparium

Placospherastra micraster

Placospongia sp.2 (?intermedia sensu de Laubenfels, 1936b)

Polymastia tenax

Diplastrella sp.1

Diplastrella sp.2

Spirastrella coccinea

Spirastrella hartmani

Aaptos sp.2-"brown tuberculate"

Aaptos sp.3-"light brown smooth"

Aaptos pernucleata

Prosuberites laughlini

Suberites aurantiacus

Terpios belindae

Tectitethya crypta

Auletta sp.-"orange bush-lobe-tube"

Auletta cubensis

Axinella sp.-"orange corrugated tubes"

Axinella sp.-"orange-yellow velvety tubes"

Axinella ?digitiformis

Axinella ?pomponiae

Axinella corrugata

Axinella morchella

Dragmacidon "lunaecharta"

Dragmacidon reticulatum

Dragmaxia undata

Ptilocaulis marquezii

Ptilocaulis walpersii

Dictyonella sp.2-"with oxea"

Dictyonella funicularis

Scopalina ruetzleri

Svenzea cristinae

Svenzea zeai

Svenzea? flava

Svenzea? tubulosa

Axinyssa ambrosia

Axinyssa yumae

Halichondria melanodocia

Topsentia ophiraphidites

Topsentia pseudoporrecta

Didiscus oxeata

Higginsia coralloides

Myrmekioderma gyroderma

Myrmekioderma rea

Halisarca caerulea

Calcifibrospongia actinostromarioides

Callyspongia ?eschrichti

Callyspongia armigera

Callyspongia fallax

Callyspongia longissima

Callyspongia pallida

Callyspongia plicifera

Callyspongia strongylophora

Callyspongia tenerrima

Callyspongia vaginalis

Chalinula molitba

Chalinula pseudomolitba

Chalinula zeae

Haliclona (Halichoclona) magnifica

Haliclona (Reniera) ?ruetzleri

Haliclona (Reniera) tubifera

Haliclona (Soestella) ?melana

Haliclona (Soestella) ?twincayensis

Amphimedon sp.-"gray-green branch-ridge"

Amphimedon complanata

Amphimedon compressa

Amphimedon viridis

Amphimedon? sp.-"branching morphotype"

Amphimedon? sp.-"castle morphotype"

Amphimedon? sp.-"tubular morphotype"

Cribrochalina dura

Cribrochalina vasculum

Niphates sp.-"orange thick encrustation"

Niphates alba

Niphates amorpha

Niphates caribica

Niphates digitalis

Niphates erecta

Niphates recondita

Neopetrosia sp.-"soft"

Neopetrosia carbonaria

Neopetrosia proxima

Neopetrosia rosariensis

Neopetrosia subtriangularis

Petrosia (Petrosia) pellasarca

Petrosia (Petrosia) weinbergi

Petrosia (Strongylophora) sp.-"crumbly round volcano"

Petrosia (Strongylophora) davilai

Xestospongia sp.-"whitish thick encrustation"

Xestospongia deweerdtae "associated"

Xestospongia deweerdtae "free living"

Xestospongia muta

Calyx podatypa

Oceanapia bartschi

Siphonodictyon brevitubulatum

Siphonodictyon coralliphagum

Siphonodictyon siphonum

Siphonodictyon xamaycaense

Unidentified -"soft with green filamentous algae"

Unidentified -"yellow fistules"

Desmanthus incrustans

Batzella sp.-"creamy salmon"

Batzella rubra

Strongylacidon griseum

Lissodendoryx isodictyalis

Lissodendoryx sigmata

Monanchora arbuscula

Biemna sp.-"yellow tough cushions"

Biemna caribea

Biemna cribaria

Neofibularia nolitangere

Desmapsamma anchorata

Phorbas amaranthus

Iotrochota arenosa

Iotrochota birotulata

Merlia normani

Artemisina melana

Clathria (Clathria) faviformis

Clathria (Clathria) foliacea

Clathria (Microciona) bulbotoxa

Clathria (Microciona) calla

Clathria (Microciona) echinata

Clathria (Microciona) spinosa

Clathria (Thalysias) sp.3

Clathria (Thalysias) curacaoensis

Clathria (Thalysias) minuta

Clathria (Thalysias) virgultosa

Pandaros acanthifolium

Mycale laevis

Mycale laxissima

Mycale microsigmatosa

Ectyoplasia ferox

Tedania ignis

Tedania klausi

Cinachyrella apion

Cinachyrella kuekenthali

Suberea sp.-"soft Aplysina lacunosa"

Aiolochroia crassa

Aiolochroia crassa -"yellow spherical morphotype"

Aplysina sp.-"long branchelets"

Aplysina archeri

Aplysina bathyphila

Aplysina cauliformis -"brown erect morphotype"

Aplysina cauliformis -"lilac creeping morphotype"

Aplysina fistularis

Aplysina fulva

Aplysina insularis

Aplysina lacunosa

Verongula sp-."fouled"

Verongula gigantea

Verongula reiswigi

Verongula rigida