Agelas mauritiana
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 mauritiana
Visual Description
Museum-collected, preserved specimens of Agelas mauritiana show a sponge body form typical of Agelas (a firm, irregular surface visible in collection photography). [1]
Chemical Pigments (Carotenoids)
Carotenoid analyses identified trikentriorhodin as the main carotenoid pigment in Agelas mauritiana. [2]
In comparative carotenoid surveys of Porifera, A. mauritiana was included among taxa whose principal pigments are aromatic/xanthophyll carotenoids (as opposed to primarily hydrocarbon carotenoids). [2]
Nomenclature and Occurrence Data Sources
GBIF lists Agelas mauritiana (Carter, 1883) as an accepted species and places it within Agelas (Agelasidae, Demospongiae). [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / mauritiana constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.