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)

• 35 taxon names authored by Maria Cristina Díaz

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1990

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

2013

• Alvizu, A., Díaz, M.C., 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., Díaz, M.C., 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. 

2014

• Rützler, K., Piantoni, C., van Soest, R.W.M. & Díaz, M. C. 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. 

2015

• Díaz, M.C., 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. 

2018

• Busutil, L., García-Hernández, M.R., Díaz, M.C., 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. 

2023

• Díaz, M.C., 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.