Aiolochroia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Verongiida
- Family: Aplysinidae
- Genus: Aiolochroia
Visual Description
Members of the genus Aiolochroia typically exhibit a branching or tubular growth form. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these sponges often display a distinct, often vibrant, coloration, which can range from yellow to dark brown or black, particularly when exposed to air or preserved.[1] The surface texture is generally conulose, characterized by small, protruding points or ridges formed by the underlying skeletal structure.[1]
General Information
Aiolochroia is a genus of marine sponges in the family Aplysinidae, established by Wiedenmayer in 1977.[2] The genus is recognized within the order Verongiida.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aiolochroia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aiolochroia Wiedenmayer, 1977. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2239251. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Aiolochroia. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid261676[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.