Acanthancora cyanocrypta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Hymedesmiidae
- Genus: Acanthancora
- Species: Acanthancora cyanocrypta
Visual Description
- Acanthancora cyanocrypta* is depicted as a blue to cobalt-blue sponge commonly matching the vernacular sense of a “cobalt blue horny sponge.”[2]
Identification / Notable Biology
- Color morph linked to symbiosis: The species is described as typically cobalt blue due to a symbiotic blue-green alga (cyanobacterium), with an orange color morph reported when the alga is absent.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Hymedesmiidae / Acanthancora / cyanocrypta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acanthancora cyanocrypta (Laubenfels, 1930). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2241042. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Mohammad F. Mehbub; Qi Yang; Ying Cheng; Christopher M. M. Franco; Wei Zhang. Marine sponge-derived natural products: trends and opportunities for the decade of 2011-2020. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1462825.