Abyssocladia stegosaurensis
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 stegosaurensis
Distribution and Habitat
Abyssocladia stegosaurensis was originally described from deep-sea samples collected in the Mariana Islands[2]. As a member of the Cladorhizidae family, it inhabits bathyal to abyssal depths where it functions as a suspension feeder, utilizing specialized sticky filaments to capture small crustaceans and other microfauna in nutrient-poor waters[3].
Visual Description
The species Abyssocladia stegosaurensis is characterized by a delicate, branching architecture typical of carnivorous sponges in the family Cladorhizidae. The specimens observed exhibit a pale, whitish to cream coloration with a smooth surface texture lacking prominent spicules or heavy encrustations on the outer cortex. The branches are slender and taper towards the tips, forming an open, bush-like structure adapted for trapping prey in deep-sea environments[1]. test2 ok
Molecular Data
Genetic sequences for Abyssocladia stegosaurensis are available in public nucleotide databases, providing data for phylogenetic analysis within the Demospongiae class[4].
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Abyssocladia / stegosaurensis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Abyssocladia stegosaurensis Hestetun, Rapp & Pomponi, 2019. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/10731792. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Jon Thomassen Hestetun; Hans Tore Rapp; Shirley A. Pomponi. Deep-Sea Carnivorous Sponges From the Mariana Islands. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2019. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00371.
- ↑ Abyssocladia stegosaurensis. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid2580327[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.