Agelas clathrodes
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 clathrodes
Visual Description
Field photos and preserved specimens under this taxon are consistent with the common “elephant ear” morphology reported for Agelas sponges: encrusting to massive forms forming broad, ear-like lobes/expanses with a relatively smooth to subtly uneven surface, typically presenting an overall orange to orange-brown coloration in situ (e.g., images from citizen-science and museum specimen records).
Species Overview
Agelas clathrodes is an accepted species name (authored as (Schmidt, 1870)) within the family Agelasidae. Its basionym is given as Chalinopsis clathrodes Schmidt, 1870. [2]
Known Biotic Associations
Records in Global Biotic Interactions associate Agelas clathrodes with multiple shrimp species of the genus Synalpheus (interaction type reported as “symbiontOf”). [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / clathrodes constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2249203. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Agelas clathrodes. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Agelas%20clathrodes. Accessed 2026-07-10.