Abyssocladia lakwollii
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Cladorhizidae
- Genus: Abyssocladia
- Species: Abyssocladia lakwollii
Visual Description
The available training-guide imagery associated with Abyssocladia lakwollii shows a disc-/funnel-shaped (disciform or flabelliform) carnivorous sponge form, matching the “disc-shaped” morphotype used for comparative identification of species within Abyssocladia.
Taxonomic Notes (family Cladorhizidae context)
Members of Cladorhizidae are carnivorous sponges that typically have reduced or absent aquiferous (water-transport) systems, relying on prey capture by entanglement in sponge filaments followed by digestion by sponge cells.
Distribution and Status (occurrence record support)
GBIF records Abyssocladia lakwollii as an accepted species (Vacelet & Kelly, 2014).
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Abyssocladia / lakwollii constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.