Acarnus deweerdtae
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 deweerdtae
Visual Description
Museum specimen images for Acarnus deweerdtae available via GBIF/Naturalis (preserved invertebrate zoology) depict a dark, firm sponge with an encrusting to low-relief growth on the specimen substrate.
Taxonomic Status and Authorship
Acarnus deweerdtae is treated as an accepted species name in GBIF, with authorship attributed to van Soest, Hooper & Hiemstra (1991).[2]
Notes on Systematic Context
Comparative discussion in the cited literature concerns higher-rank placement of related fistular sponge genera within Poecilosclerida’s broader assemblage. Acarnus is treated only in comparative/systematic context in that work, rather than as the focal taxon with species-specific diagnosis or ecology for A. deweerdtae.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Acarnidae / Acarnus / deweerdtae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acarnus deweerdtae van Soest, Hooper & Hiemstra, 1991. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2242403. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Rob W. M. van Soest; Sven Zea; Margriet Kielman. New species of Zyzzya, Cornulella, Damiria, and Acheliderma (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), with a review of fistular genera of Iophonidae. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 1994. https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-06403003.