Acanthochaetetes wellsi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Clionaida
- Family: Acanthochaetetidae
- Genus: Acanthochaetetes
- Species: Acanthochaetetes wellsi
Visual Description
- Acanthochaetetes wellsi* is known from museum specimens cataloged under this species name in GBIF-linked collections (e.g., Yale University Peabody Museum; Naturalis Biodiversity Center). These records are associated with the “Museum Specimen: Invertebrate Zoology” image type. [2]
Classification Notes
- Acanthochaetetes wellsi* is treated as an accepted species in the genus Acanthochaetetes, with authorship attributed to Hartman & Goreau (1975). [2]
Chaetetid-type skeletal characters (high-level)
In an overview of extant chaetetid-type hypercalcified demosponges, Acanthochaetetes wellsi is presented as a living representative and illustrated using characteristic external skeletal features described for the group, including mamelons and astrorhizae (noted from underwater cave settings in that treatment). [3]
Ecology & biotic interactions (from curated records)
Curated interaction records in GloBI associate Acanthochaetetes wellsi with observations where it is adjacent to the “roof of cave” habitat element (and list some interaction types with the taxon as ‘no:match’ in the same record set). These are recorded under the taxon name in the GloBI system. [4]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Clionaida / Acanthochaetetidae / Acanthochaetetes / wellsi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Acanthochaetetes wellsi Hartman & Goreau, 1975. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2251957. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Ronald R. West. Treatise Online, no. 20, Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 2A: Introduction to the fossil hypercalcified chaetetid-type Porifera (Demospongiae).. Treatise Online. 2011. https://doi.org/10.17161/to.v0i0.4137.
- ↑ Acanthochaetetes wellsi. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Acanthochaetetes%20wellsi. Accessed 2026-07-10.