The use of mussels as bioindicators of pollution by policyclic aromatic hydrocarbons has been widely applied around the world with great results for the monitoring of these pollutants, in Brazil the specie Perna perna is the mostly used for this porpuse. Nevertheless, due to the restriction of this organism in shallow areas is required to discover alternative bioindicators to the mussel. In the present study the organism utilized for this is the marine sponge Hymeniacidon heliophila. Widely distributed across the brazilian shore, this specie presents great conditions to be a bioindicator, like sensibility, easy identification and capacity to provide enough material for tha analysis. Due its socio-economic and environmental importance Guanabara Bay is one of the chosen areas for the present work as know to be contaminated by PAH. The other chosen region is located at Coastal Islands – Cagarra, Comprida e Palmas- constituent of the unit of conservation of integral proteccion known as Natural Monument of Cagarras Islands, located in the litoral of the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro city and spite of being preserved from the mooring of ships suffers the influence of the sewer plume released by the Submarine Emisary of Ipanema. The determination of 37 PAHs was held through gas chromatography coupled mass spectrometer wich is included the 16 priority PAHs according to the USEPA beyond the 5 akylated series. The results found in the coleted sponges durying the months of august and september presented a preferencial pattern of acumulation of the heavy compounds and the values ranged from 0,07 to 793,29 ng.g(-1), for the mussels the concentrations ranged from 0,07 to 1658,73 ng.g(-1). Comparatively the sponges presents satisfactory results related to the capacity of bioacumulation of HPAs of the mussels.