Acanthella flagelliformis
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 flagelliformis
Visual Description
Museum specimen images (preserved specimens) attributed to Acanthella flagelliformis under Dictyonellidae show an encrusting sponge habit, with a relatively thin surface layer and an irregular outline on the substrate. (Images inspected are from gbif/museum specimen records via the TreeOfLife-200M image index.)[1]
Nomenclature and status
GBIF lists Acanthella flagelliformis as an accepted species name, authored by (van Soest & Stentoft, 1988).[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / flagelliformis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acanthella flagelliformis (van Soest & Stentoft, 1988). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183012. Accessed 2026-07-09.