Acantheurypon pilosella
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Axinellida
- Family: Raspailiidae
- Genus: Acantheurypon
- Species: Acantheurypon pilosella
Visual Description
Museum specimen images for Acantheurypon pilosella (GBIF/Naturalis Biodiversity Center) show a sponge specimen preserved as a compact mass with an irregular, low-profile form. The surface appears uneven to slightly crumpled, with multiple small projections/points visible across the exterior. Color in the preserved specimens is generally light tan to beige, consistent with dried or fixed museum material.
Species Identity and Nomenclature
GBIF lists Acantheurypon pilosella (Topsent, 1904) as an accepted species name within the genus Acantheurypon.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Raspailiidae / Acantheurypon / pilosella constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.