Aaptos aaptos
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Suberitida
- Family: Suberitidae
- Genus: Aaptos
- Species: Aaptos aaptos
Overview
Aaptos aaptos is an accepted species of marine demospongian sponge in the family Suberitidae. [2]
Visual Description
Museum specimens of Aaptos aaptos are preserved as irregular, robust masses (demosponges) in specimen catalogs. [1]
Pigments and secondary metabolites
A study reports carotenoid pigment chemistry in Aaptos aaptos and the isolation/characterization of a newly identified carotenoid named aaptopurpurin.
Species interactions
Global Biotic Interactions aggregates evidence that Aaptos aaptos is preyed upon (“eatenBy”) by the pomacanthid fish Holacanthus passer. [3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Suberitida / Suberitidae / Aaptos / aaptos constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aaptos aaptos (Schmidt, 1864). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2251089. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Aaptos aaptos. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Aaptos%20aaptos. Accessed 2026-07-10.