Acanthostrongylophora
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Haplosclerida
- Family: Petrosiidae
- Genus: Acanthostrongylophora
Visual Description
Images associated with Acanthostrongylophora (commonly A. ingens and A. ashmorica) depict preserved specimens with an irregular, lobed to cushion-like overall body shape typical of many haplosclerid demosponges. Museum and observational records frequently show a rough, uneven surface rather than a smooth external form.
Biology and Scientific Significance
Acanthostrongylophora—especially A. ingens—is important in marine natural products research because work on its microbiome-linked metabolism identified an actinomycete symbiont capable of producing the alkaloid manzamine A. In the referenced study, the manzamine A producer was identified as Micromonospora sp. strain M42, connecting the sponge-associated microbial community to the observed natural product chemistry rather than attributing production solely to the sponge host.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Petrosiidae / Acanthostrongylophora constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.