Agelas schmidtii
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 schmidtii
Visual Description
Specimens shown in available images are consistent with a benthic, encrusting to massive marine sponge form typical of Demospongiae, appearing as thick tissue/laminae on hard substrata. Colors vary across records, commonly appearing in shades of tan to yellow-brown in photographs, with preserved specimens showing darker, compact sponge tissue.
Species status and nomenclature
GBIF lists Agelas schmidtii Wilson, 1902 as an accepted species name.[2]
Occurrence data (overview)
Occurrence records aggregated via GBIF include both citizen-science observations and preserved museum specimens for Agelas schmidtii.[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / schmidtii constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Agelas schmidtii Wilson, 1902. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/7550832. Accessed 2026-07-09.