Acarnus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Acarnidae
- Genus: Acarnus
Visual Description
Sponges of the genus Acarnus (family Acarnidae) are typically represented in biodiversity records and museum collections as solid, lobate or encrusting demosponges with a corky/firm preserved texture. Visual records for multiple named species (e.g., Acarnus souriei, A. erithacus, A. nicoleae) show species-level variation in external form, but specimens are consistently treated as congeneric within Acarnus in occurrence databases.
Diagnostic Features (genus-level)
The genus Acarnus is diagnosed by spicule characters emphasized in taxonomic treatments, particularly the presence of cladotylote spicules.
Diversity
A modern taxonomic study reports 27 valid species worldwide in Acarnus.
Type of taxonomic citation / nomenclatural authority
In biodiversity databases, the genus is treated as Acarnus Gray, 1867.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Acarnidae / Acarnus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.