Agelas oroides
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 oroides
Visual Description
Species Biology and Research Notes
Agelas oroides has been studied experimentally for its bioactivity: crude extracts prepared from this sponge were tested for effects on human neuroblastoma cell survival under in vitro conditions, positioning the species as a potential source of biologically active compounds relevant to cancer cell viability/survival assays. [2]
Distribution and Records (Occurrence Data)
Global biodiversity databases treat Agelas oroides as an accepted species name and list it with the vernacular name "Maltese sponge". [3]
Molecular Resources
NCBI provides molecular records associated with Agelas oroides under the organism name used for nucleotide queries. [4]
Species Interactions
Agelas oroides is represented in Global Biotic Interactions as an interaction target taxon, with at least one recorded interaction type linking the sponge to another organism taxon. [5]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / oroides constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Cristina Ferretti; Barbara Marengo; Chiara De Ciucis; Mariapaola Nitti; Maria Adelaide Pronzato; Umberto M. Marinari; Roberto Pronzato; Renata Manconi; Cinzia Domenicotti. Effects of Agelas oroides and Petrosia ficiformis crude extracts on human neuroblastoma cell survival. International Journal of Oncology. 2007. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.30.1.161.
- ↑ Agelas oroides (Schmidt, 1864). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2249185. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Agelas oroides. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid72715[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.
- ↑ Agelas oroides. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Agelas%20oroides. Accessed 2026-07-10.