Newspecies of marine Demospongiae from Brazil.* George Hechtel' ABSTRACT Fourteen new species of marine Demospongiae are described from Brazil, namely Anchinoe ra-mosus, Apiysina pergamentacea, Callyspongia lahoreli, Crelloxea spinosa, Didiscus oxeata,Echinodicty-um dendroides, Halichondria braziliensis, Perissinella fosteri, Prianos grayi, Rhabdastrella fibrosa, Rhizochalina nodulosa, Spheciospongia symbiotica, Stylaxinella bistyla, and Stylaxinella braziliensis, Crelloxea is established as a new genus in the family Crellidae. RESUMO São descritas quatorze espécies novas de Demospongiae marinhas do Brasil, a saber: Anchinoe ramasus, Aplysina pergamentacea, Callyspongia laboreli, Crelloxea spinosa, Didiscus oxeara/Echinodicty-um dendroides, Halichondria braziliensis, Perissinella fosteri, Prianos grayi, Rhabdastrella fibrosa, Rhizochalina nodulosa, Spheciospongia symbiotica, Stylaxinella bystilla and Stylaxinella braziliensis. Crelloxeaè proposto como um género novo da família Crellidae (Porifera). MATERIAL AND METHODS The new species of Demospongiae described in this report are based on alcohol-preserved speci-mens in the Fosteran Laborei collectíons of the Yale Peabody Museum (YPM), New Haven, Connecticut. Foster's material was taken in a Single dredge Station off Recife, Pernambuco (PE), (07°38.5S, 34°37'W), ata depth of 27m. Specimens were associated with coral and calcareous debris. Laborel's material was taken in the course of his coral reef survey (LABOREL, 1969), by shore col-lecting, scuba diving, and dredging. Specimens cited in the present report came from the Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, localities near Recife, and sites along the coast of Bahia. Several specimens lack precise locality data, due to disintegration of labeis. I referred previously to the new species, using only generic designations, in my Zoogeographie dis-cussion of Brazilian marine Demospongie (HECHTEL, 1976). Two species have an altered generic pla-cement in the present paper, namely Adocias^. (to Rhizochalina) ar\ú Verongia sp. b Ho Aplysina). The latter transfer is based on the revisions of WIEDENMAYER (1977) and VAN SOEST (1978). I have not f o r-maly described Auletta sp., in the hopeof obtaining more complete material. Verongia sp. a may becons-pecific with Aplysina lacunosa (Pallas), as revised by VAN SOEST (1978). Accepted for publication on 01. VII. 1983. The project was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Graduate School at Stony Brook, and research grant 021-7102 A from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. This is a contribution of the Ecology and Evolution program at Stony Brook. Researcher of Ecology and Evolutin, State (Jniversity of New York at Story Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794. IHERINGIA. Sér.Zool., Porto Alegre (63):59-89, 17 out. 1983
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