Acanthella cavernosa
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Bubarida
- Family: Dictyonellidae
- Genus: Acanthella
- Species: Acanthella cavernosa
Visual Description
Specimens of Acanthella cavernosa (museum/preserved material) are typically depicted as an encrusting sponge with a compact, irregular surface (often shown as lobed or massed tissue under specimen photography). Representative images are included in the Tree of Life dataset for this species.[1]
Distribution and nomenclatural status
Acanthella cavernosa is recognized as an accepted species name by GBIF (listed as Acanthella cavernosa Dendy, 1922).[2]
Chemistry (Dictyonellidae secondary metabolites)
Acanthella cavernosa has been reported as a source of terpene “isocyanate-functionalized” metabolites. In particular, a study on sponge extracts isolated and supported the presence of axisocyanate-3 (an isocyanate-containing terpene metabolite) and related urea/thiourea derivatives using spectroscopic evidence and confirmatory derivatization chemistry.[3]
The same work discusses that terpene isocyanates may be labile and therefore potentially under-detected during natural-products isolation because of hydrolytic sensitivity—an inference relevant to broader studies of Dictyonellidae sponge chemistry.[3]
Genetic resources
NCBI’s Nucleotide database includes records for Acanthella cavernosa under taxon identifier 85798.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / cavernosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acanthella cavernosa Dendy, 1922. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183007. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 Pinus Jumaryatno; Karen Rands‐Trevor; Joanne T. Blanchfield; Mary J. Garson. Isocyanates in marine sponges: Axisocyanate-3, a new sesquiterpene from Acanthella cavernosa. ARKIVOC. 2006. https://doi.org/10.3998/ark.5550190.0008.713.
- ↑ Acanthella cavernosa. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid85798[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.