Aciculites tulearensis
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 tulearensis
Visual Description
Images linked in GBIF via the Naturalis Biodiversity Center correspond to preserved museum specimens (“Museum Specimen: Invertebrate Zoology”). For Aciculites tulearensis, these photographs are whole-specimen views used to assess the general external morphology of the preserved sponge material.
Taxonomic status and original description
GBIF records Aciculites tulearensis as an accepted species with authorship Vacelet & Vasseur, 1965 and cites the original publication: Vacelet, J. & Vasseur, P. (1965). Spongiaires des grottes et surplombs des récifs de Tuléar (Madagascar). (Recueil Des Travaux De La Station Marine d’Endoume, 2–4: 71–123).
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Scleritodermidae / Aciculites / tulearensis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.