Agelas cavernosa
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Agelasida
- Family: Agelasidae
- Genus: Agelas
- Species: Agelas cavernosa
Visual Description
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Species Summary
Agelas cavernosa is a demospongian sponge accepted as a valid species name (authorship: Thiele, 1903) in GBIF.
Antibacterial Activity (Reported Literature)
In an in vitro study, an ethanol (96%) extract of Agelas cavernosa collected near Barrang Lompo Island (Makassar, South Sulawesi) showed antibacterial activity against three test bacteria (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) using a microdilution method and MIC values determined via INT.
Reported MIC values for the ethanol extract were:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa: 150 ppm
- Escherichia coli: 200 ppm
- Staphylococcus aureus: 250 ppm
Using the study’s MIC potency categories, the extract was classified as having moderate antibacterial activity against all three bacteria, with the strongest activity reported against P. aeruginosa.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / cavernosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.