Aaptos simplex
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 simplex
Species identity (nomenclature and status)
Aaptos simplex is an accepted species name in GBIF, cited as (Lambe, 1893). The original basionym is reported as Suberites simplex Lambe, 1893. [2]
Visual Description
Note: The following visual notes are based on the associated museum specimen images in the TreeOfLife-200M-linked image set for Aaptos simplex.
- Museum specimen image(s) show a preserved sponge specimen photographed against a dark background, consistent with the common “horny sponge” vernacular label attached to Aaptos simplex in GBIF. [2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Suberitida / Suberitidae / Aaptos / simplex constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aaptos simplex (Lambe, 1893). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/7519811. Accessed 2026-07-09.