Agelas dispar
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 dispar
Visual Description
Specimen-based imagery (museum-preserved material): Images associated with Agelas dispar records in GBIF show a macroscopic encrusting to massive sponge form typical of demosponges, with a relatively thick surface layer and a textured surface consistent with sponge morphology in the genus Agelas (museum specimen photographs).[2]
Taxonomic identity and nomenclature
Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 is recognized as an accepted species name in GBIF, with the stated authorship and year matching the original description source citation provided by GBIF.[2]
Distribution (occurrence data)
Occurrence records for Agelas dispar are indexed by GBIF and NCBI/GenBank. The NCBI taxonomy entry places the species within Agelasida (Heteroscleromorpha) and Agelasidae.[3]
Ecology and biotic interactions
Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) indexes interactions recorded for Agelas dispar (interaction type entries labeled as “interactsWith”).[4]
Chemical or biological relevance (literature)
A 2009 study reports that a marine sponge-derived fungus (Trichoderma sp.) associated with a sponge context produced metabolites including trichopyrone, discussed as sponge-derived fungal constituents in the cited work.[5]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / dispar constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2249219. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Agelas dispar. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid295252[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.
- ↑ Agelas dispar. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Agelas%20dispar. Accessed 2026-07-10.
- ↑ Ahmed Abdel‐Lateff; Katja M. Fisch; Anthony D. Wright. Trichopyrone and Other Constituents from the Marine Sponge-Derived Fungus Trichoderma sp.. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-2009-3-406.