Acanthella saladinorum
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 saladinorum
Visual Description
Species Accounts
- Description and discovery: Acanthella saladinorum was described as a new shallow-water sponge species from the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The original description is based on specimens that were photographed in situ and collected by SCUBA divers between 2001 and 2004.[2]
Distribution and Habitat
Conservation Status
- IUCN Red List: Listed as Data Deficient (global), with the rationale emphasizing cryptic occurrence, limited baseline knowledge, and uncertainty about the extent of distribution (including whether it is endemic to the Galápagos).[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Bubarida / Dictyonellidae / Acanthella / saladinorum constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Carina Sim-Smith; Cleveland P. Hickman; Michelle Kelly. New shallow-water sponges (Porifera) from the Galápagos Islands. Zootaxa. 2021. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1.
- 1 2 3 4 Acanthella saladinorum. IUCN Red List. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/220660370/220660378. Accessed 2026-07-10.