Acanthostrongylophora ingens
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Haplosclerida
- Family: Petrosiidae
- Genus: Acanthostrongylophora
- Species: Acanthostrongylophora ingens
Visual Description
Museum specimen imagery (Naturalis Biodiversity Center / GBIF) shows Acanthostrongylophora ingens as an encrusting to cushion-like sponge with a visibly textured surface (typical for Petrosiidae), with coloration ranging from light to darker gray-brown in preserved material.
In citizen-science observation imagery (iNaturalist via GBIF), the sponge is visible in situ as a darker, patch-forming organism attached to the substrate.
Natural history and research relevance
Acanthostrongylophora ingens has been used as a host sponge in marine natural-products research. A 2019 study investigated fungi associated with A. ingens (from specimens collected around Mandeh Island, West Sumatra, Indonesia) and reported cytotoxic activity of fungal ethyl-acetate extracts using an MTT assay against WiDr (cancer) and Vero (normal) cell lines.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Petrosiidae / Acanthostrongylophora / ingens constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.