Aciculites ciliata
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Scleritodermidae
- Genus: Aciculites
- Species: Aciculites ciliata
Visual Description
Aciculites ciliata is represented in curated museum specimen imagery (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) as preserved material used in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset.[1]
Species Authority and Status
GBIF treats Aciculites ciliata as an accepted species name (Wilson, 1925).[2]
Ecology and Host-Associated Microbes
In surveys of demosponges from the Orchid Island/Lanyu marine karst ecosystem off southeastern Taiwan, Aciculites ciliata was included among Tetractinellida sampled across nine sites.[3]
In that study, A. ciliata was reported as the tetractinellid cave sponge with cyanobacterial sequences detected in the dataset, and it showed prokaryotic richness patterns consistent with high-diversity tetractinellid-associated assemblages.[3]
The work also indicates that A. ciliata participates in host-related clustering of sponge-associated prokaryotic communities within tetractinellids (including Scleritodermidae, the family of Aciculites).[3]
Molecular Data (NCBI)
NCBI nucleotide records are available for Aciculites ciliata under taxon id 1336840.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Scleritodermidae / Aciculites / ciliata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aciculites ciliata Wilson, 1925. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183804. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 3 Daniel F. R. Cleary; Yusheng Huang; Ana R. M. Polónia; Martin van der Plas; Newton C. M. Gomes; Nicole J. de Voogd. Sponges and their prokaryotic communities sampled from a remote karst ecosystem. Marine Biodiversity. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-023-01387-4.
- ↑ Aciculites ciliata. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1336840[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.