Acanthella dendyi
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 dendyi
Visual Description
In the available TreeOfLife-200M image set for Acanthella dendyi, the single photo observation shows a sponge colony photographed underwater/at close range, with the tissue appearing as a soft, lobate/irregular mass rather than a rigid, articulated structure. The sampled image comes from iNaturalist (human observation).
(Visual coverage in this specific dataset is limited to one image.)[1]
Nomenclature and Identity
Acanthella dendyi is an accepted species name in GBIF, authored as (Bergquist, 1970).[2]
GBIF lists the basionym as Phakellia dendyi Bergquist, 1970.[2]
Higher-level Context (Order Bubarida)
A phylogenomic study using mitochondrial data across Demospongiae supports a framework of higher-level relationships among major demosponge lineages, including placement contexts involving the order Bubarida (and thus the family Dictyonellidae used here).[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / dendyi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Acanthella dendyi (Bergquist, 1970). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5793473. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Dennis V. Lavrov; Maria Cristina Díaz; Manuel Maldonado; Christine Morrow; Thierry Pérez; Shirley A. Pomponi; Robert Thacker. Phylomitogenomics bolsters the high-level classification of Demospongiae (phylum Porifera). PLoS ONE. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287281.