Agelas wiedenmayeri
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 wiedenmayeri
Visual Description
Field and museum images of Agelas wiedenmayeri show an encrusting to low-profile sponge form, with dark to medium-brown coloration. Specimens commonly appear as clustered or tube-like aggregates rather than as solitary massive forms.
Across the sampled occurrence images, the sponge surface appears rough/mottled and macroscopic openings are not always prominent; overall morphology is consistent with an Agelasid “clustered tube” habit as reflected by the vernacular label used for the species in occurrence records.
Identification Notes
Authoritative occurrence databases treat Agelas wiedenmayeri as an accepted species name (Alcolado, 1984) within the genus Agelas.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Agelasidae / Agelas / wiedenmayeri constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.