Acarnus bergquistae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Acarnidae
- Genus: Acarnus
- Species: Acarnus bergquistae
Visual Description
Preserved sponge material photographed as mounted museum/invertebrate zoology specimens is available for Acarnus bergquistae in the dataset, providing morphological context for the species within Acarnidae (Poecilosclerida).
Notes on biology and broader relevance
Poecilosclerida (non-verongiid demosponges) are reported to contain α-chitin as an important structural component of their skeletons. A PLoS ONE study examining Red Sea non-verongiid demosponges includes Acarnus as a representative Poecilosclerida genus, supporting the broader relevance of Acarnus taxa to chitin-associated structural biology and potential chitin/biomaterials applications.[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Acarnidae / Acarnus / bergquistae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Hermann Ehrlich; Lamiaa A. Shaala; Diaa T. A. Youssef; Sonia Żółtowska‐Aksamitowska; Mikhail V. Tsurkan; Roberta Galli; Heike Meißner; Marcin Wysokowski; Iaroslav Petrenko; Konstantin R. Tabachnick; Viatcheslav N. Ivanenko; Nicole Bechmann; Yvonne Joseph; Teofil Jesionowski. Discovery of chitin in skeletons of non-verongiid Red Sea demosponges. PLoS ONE. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195803.