Agelas ceylonica
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 ceylonica
Visual Description
The TreeOfLife-200M image set for Agelas ceylonica consists of preserved museum specimens (invertebrate zoology) sourced via GBIF through the Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
Because these are preserved (not live) specimens, features that can change with preservation—especially live coloration—are not reliably interpretable from photographs alone; visual differences among specimens are therefore best treated as variability in taxonomic attribution or intraspecific variation until confirmed using diagnostic characters and, where possible, type comparison.
Notes on Identification and Nomenclature
In a revision of the Indonesian sponge fauna, Agelas taxa are treated with attention to the practical difficulties of sponge identification: nomenclature and species-level identification may remain problematic when type material is dispersed across institutions and not all taxa are checked against type specimens, so some identifications can be provisional. In that context, Agelas material including “Agelas ‘ceylonica’” (attributed to Dendy, 1905 in that account) is discussed among common reef forms.
GBIF currently treats Agelas ceylonica (Dendy, 1905) as an accepted species name (exact match) in its taxonomic system.
Molecular Data (GenBank/NCBI)
NCBI’s nucleotide taxonomy places Agelas ceylonica under taxon ID 333325, consistent with the accepted species name used across biodiversity systems.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / ceylonica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.