“…In addition, some students did internships in the UFRJ, which were funded with grants provided by the National Council of Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Concytec) and the EsponjAS Project. As a result of these initiatives, 30 species have been identified and described, integrating morphological approaches that include spicule characterization aided by electronic microscopy (Aguirre et al, 2011, Hajdu et al, 2015, Recinos et al, 2020Bispo et al, 2022) and molecular tools such as DNA sequencing (Azevedo et al, 2015, Cóndor-Luján et al, 2019. Identifying the collected material will be useful for the elaboration of a identification guide of sponges of Peru, which will be published later (Ph.…”