Acanthella pulcherrima
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 pulcherrima
Visual Description
Museum specimens of Acanthella pulcherrima (Dictyonellidae) appear as preserved, irregularly shaped sponge masses with a relatively smooth to finely textured surface. In available records, the specimens are commonly light-colored (cream to pale yellow-brown in preservation) and form lobed or encrusting/low-growth morphologies rather than erect, branching forms.
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
Acanthella pulcherrima Ridley & Dendy, 1886 is treated as an accepted species by GBIF, with the taxon placed in the genus Acanthella (family Dictyonellidae).[2]
Molecular data (NCBI)
NCBI taxonomy/sequence data for Acanthella pulcherrima are associated with taxon ID 85799, within Porifera (Demospongiae; Heteroscleromorpha) and the order Bubarida.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / pulcherrima constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acanthella pulcherrima Ridley & Dendy, 1886. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183018. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Acanthella pulcherrima. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid85799[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.