Brazil
Salãozinho, in Atol das Rocas, is the type locality of the ascidian Leptoclinides crocotulus, a species described in 2015 from a colony collected there. A paratype of the ascidian Polysyncraton maurizeliae, described in 2015 and named in honor of Maurizélia de Brito Silva, manager of the Atol das Rocas Biological Reserve, also came from the pool.
In 2011 the ascidians Trididemnum maragogi and Didemnum granulatum were also collected at the site. In the 1999 sponge sampling, the pool had 13 species and a density of 15.6 individuals per m².
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