Acarnus nicoleae
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 nicoleae
Visual Description
Specimens in museum collections (as represented in TreeOfLife-200M image records) show Acarnus nicoleae as a preserved demospongian sponge with a compact, external habit suitable for cataloged museum “specimen” photography.
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
Acarnus nicoleae van Soest, Hooper & Hiemstra, 1991 is treated as an accepted species name by GBIF.
Species context within Acarnus (Acarnidae)
Within the genus Acarnus (Acarnidae, Poecilosclerida), A. nicoleae is included among the species reported from the Brazilian coast in the most recent species-account literature used here; the genus is diagnosed by spicule characters (including the presence of the cladotylote spicule) and comprises 27 valid species worldwide in that treatment.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Acarnidae / Acarnus / nicoleae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.