Acanthotetilla hemisphaerica
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Tetillidae
- Genus: Acanthotetilla
- Species: Acanthotetilla hemisphaerica
Visual Description
Visual description from dataset-linked imagery
Images associated with Acanthotetilla hemisphaerica in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset show a distinctly rounded, hemisphere-like sponge growth form and a roughened/ornamented (spiny) surface consistent with tetillid sponge morphology.
Taxonomic status
GBIF lists Acanthotetilla hemisphaerica (Burton, 1959) as an accepted species name.
Original description (as cited by GBIF)
The GBIF record attributes the name to Burton (1959), Sponges, in Scientific Reports (John Murray Expedition 1933–34), 10(5): 151–281.
Distribution
No distribution details are provided in the available GBIF API response snippet used here.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Tetillidae / Acanthotetilla / hemisphaerica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.