Rare freshwater sponges of Australasia: new record of Umborotula bogorensis (Porifera: Spongillida: Spongillidae) from the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve in Northeast Thailand

  • Nisit Ruengsawang Division of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology, Krungthep, Bangkok, 10120
  • Narumon Sangpradub Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand and Centre of Excellence on Biodiversity, Bangkok
  • Taksin Artchawakom Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Wang Nam Khieo, Nakhon Ratchasima, 30370
  • Roberto Pronzato Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132, Genova
  • Renata Manconi Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università di Sassari, Via Muroni 25, 07100, Sassari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.260
Keywords: biodiversity, taxonomy, biogeography, conservation, museum collections

Abstract

Umborotula bogorensis (Weber, 1890) is a freshwater sponge species that is recorded occasionally, mainly on islands and peninsulas of Australasia. Less than 10 records with morphological descriptions and illustrations have been published so far, and the most recent record is dated 1978. A list of the few voucher specimens from museum collections is provided here together with the rich unpublished Sasaki collection from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, recently deposited in a Japanese museum. The present new record from Northeast Thailand enlarges the geographic range of U. bogorensis to the Indochina mainland. A comparison of historical data vs present Thai records is performed by morpho-analysis (SEM) as well as biogeographic, ecological and climatic data. Results show low variability in shape and size of the diagnostic morphotraits in populations scattered over the wide geographic range. Here we also formally accept the new taxonomic status (rank elevation) of the previous suborder Spongillina as a new order Spongillida. The presence of this potentially threatened species in the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, together with its possible long-term persistence in the Bogor Botanical Garden, may support its conservation. Only a census of the known, extremely scattered populations will define the status of this species.

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2017-01-12
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Ruengsawang, N., Sangpradub, N., Artchawakom, T., Pronzato, R., & Manconi, R. (2017). Rare freshwater sponges of Australasia: new record of Umborotula bogorensis (Porifera: Spongillida: Spongillidae) from the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve in Northeast Thailand. European Journal of Taxonomy, (260). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.260
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