Acanthella mastophora
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 mastophora
Visual Description
Museum specimens of Acanthella mastophora are typically preserved as thick, irregular sponge masses, with an external surface that appears uneven to slightly hispid in texture in specimen photographs.
Nomenclature and Status
Acanthella mastophora is an accepted species name in GBIF, with the original combination given as Axinella mastophora (Schmidt, 1870).[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / mastophora constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acanthella mastophora (Schmidt, 1870). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183043. Accessed 2026-07-09.