Agelas cervicornis
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 cervicornis
Visual Description
Images linked from GBIF/iNaturalist and museum-specimen records show Agelas cervicornis as a benthic, attached sponge with an encrusting-to-lobate/mounded growth form. The surface is typically irregularly shaped and textured, with prominent lobes or projections that can give a coral-like, branching appearance (consistent with the species epithet “cervicornis”).
Taxonomic identity (accepted name)
GBIF records treat Agelas cervicornis (Schmidt, 1870) as an accepted species name within Agelasidae (Demospongiae). [2]
NCBI record
NCBI includes Agelas cervicornis under the nucleotide/taxon identifier used in the query referenced below. [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / cervicornis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Agelas cervicornis (Schmidt, 1870). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2249199. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Agelas cervicornis. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid333320[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.