Acanthella klethra
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 klethra
Visual Description
Available image records for Acanthella klethra (from GBIF/ALA and EOL/WoRMS sources) depict a marine sponge photographed in situ. (Image-derived characterization is limited to the provided thumbnail(s) and their metadata.)[1]
Species status and nomenclature
Acanthella klethra Pulitzer-Finali, 1982 is listed by GBIF as an accepted species name.[2]
Bioactive compounds (generalized chemical note)
Acanthella klethra has been cited in a review of marine sponge bioactive secondary metabolites as the sponge source of axisonitrile-3, reported as an antimalarial sesquiterpenoid isocyanide.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / klethra constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acanthella klethra Pulitzer-Finali, 1982. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183008. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ . International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. 2015. https://doi.org/10.13040/ijpsr.0975-8232.ijlsr.1(7).238-42.