Acanthascus dowlingi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Lyssacinosida
- Family: Rossellidae
- Genus: Acanthascus
- Species: Acanthascus dowlingi
Visual Description
Acanthascus dowlingi is depicted as a glass sponge (Hexactinellida) with a rigid, mineralized siliceous architecture (as shown in museum specimen imagery and citizen-science observations). Visual material in this dataset includes both preserved specimens and in situ images, reflecting the typical glass-sponge appearance with conspicuous, light-transmitting structure and a sponge body form consistent with the genus and family placement used here.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Lyssacinosida / Rossellidae / Acanthascus / dowlingi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.