Diversity of mangrove root-dwelling sponges in a tropical coastal ecosystem in the southern Gulf of Mexico region

Table 3 Number of sponge species reported in different locations in the Western Central Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions

Region	Country	Number of species	References
Northeastern Gulf of Mexico	USA	3	[59]
		10	[14]
		9	[15]
Caribbean Sea	Bahamas	13	[60]
	Guadeloupe	4–10	[26]
	Martinique	49	[31]
	Mexico	12	[61]
	Belize	147	[8]
		35	[7]
	Panama	65	[28]
	Cuba	48	[25]
	Curacao and Aruba	22	[3]
	Venezuela	16	[31]
		23	[32]
		18	[33]
		26	[34]
		10	[35]
		40	[36]
		45	[5]
		57	[38]
	Colombia	14	[24]
Indo-Pacific region	Indonesia	30	[10]
		19	[11]

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