Maria Cristina Díaz

Maria Cristina Díaz, Venezuelan spongiologist.

Museo Marino de Margarita, Boulevard de Boca del Rio, Macanao, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela
Oceanographic center, NOVA SEU, 8000 N. Ocean Dr, Dania Beach, Fl 33004

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Van Soest, R.W.M., & Pomponi, S.A. 1990. Phylogenetic classification of the Halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15–62. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Alvizu, A., , Bastidas, C., Rützler, K., Thacker, R.W. & Márquez, L.M. 2013. A skeleton-less sponge of Caribbean mangroves: invasive or undescribed?. Invertebrate Biology 132(2): 81–94. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12015 Reference page.
Redmond, N.E., Morrow, C.C., Thacker, R.W., , Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., Hajdu, E., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Picton, B.E., Pomponi, S.A., Kayal, E. & Collins, A.G. 2013. Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(3): 388–415. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict078 Reference page.

Rützler, K., Piantoni, C., van Soest, R.W.M. & 2014. Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. Zootaxa 3805(1): 1–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1 Reference page.

, Thacker, R.W., Redmond, N.E., Pérez, T. & Collins, A.G. 2015. Vansoestia caribensis gen. nov., sp. nov.: first report of the family Ianthellidae (Verongida, Demospongiae) in the Caribbean. Zootaxa 3956(3): 403–412. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.3.5. Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Busutil, L., García-Hernández, M.R., , Pomponi, S.A. 2018. Mesophotic sponges of the genus Callyspongia (Demospongiae, Haplosclerida) from Cuba, with the description of two new species. Pp 78-94 In Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.9 Reference page.
Díaz, M.C. & Pomponi, S.A. 2018. New Poecilosclerida from mesophotic coral reefs and the deep-sea escarpment in the Pulley Ridge region, eastern Gulf of Mexico: Discorhabdella ruetzleri n.sp. (Crambeidae) and Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) vaceleti n.sp. (Hymedesmiidae). Pp 229–237 In Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page. Zootaxa 4466(1): 229–237. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.17 Reference page.

, Nuttall, M., Pomponi, S.A., Rützler, K., Klontz, S., Adams, C., Hickerson, E.L. & Schmahl, G.P. 2023. An annotated and illustrated identification guide to common mesophotic reef sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hexactinellida, and Homoscleromorpha) inhabiting Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and vicinities. Zookeys 1161ː 1–68. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1161.93754 Reference page.