Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. UFPE. Endereço: Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil. Universidade do Estado da Bahia. UNEB. Endereço: Departamento de Ciências Humanas, Campus IX, Barreiras, Bahia, Brasil..
Zootaxa. 2021 Jan 25;4915(4):zootaxa.4915.4.3. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.4.3.
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the environments where freshwater sponges occur and evaluates the use of sponge spicules as a proxy in paleoenvironmental studies in the Neotropical region. The paper aims to: I) review the information about the ecology of inland sponges to facilitate the use of spicules as a paleoenvironmental tool; and II) identify possible incongruities in the use of this information in paleoenvironmental reconstructions that have been conducted in Neotropical regions. The study compiled data on 77 sponge species, specialist or generalist that occur under certain environmental conditions, such as: substrate type for growth, hydrodynamic types, as well as salinity and acidity concentrations. In addition, it provides a comparison of the paleoenvironmental conditions applied to reconstruction studies that have been carried out within this biogeographic region, highlighting incongruities regarding the current ecology of the sponges.
本文全面回顾了淡水海绵的生境，并评估了在新热带地区将海绵骨针用作古环境研究示踪物的适用性。本文旨在：i） 综述内陆海绵生态学信息，以促进将骨针用作古环境研究工具；ii） 确定在新热带地区进行的古环境重建中使用这些信息时可能存在的不一致性。本研究共收集了 77 种海绵物种的数据，这些物种是在某些环境条件下生存的，如：生长的基质类型、水动力类型以及盐度和酸度浓度。此外，它还比较了在该生物地理区域内进行的古环境重建研究中应用的古环境条件，突出了当前海绵生态学方面的不一致性。
