Aiolochroia thiona
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Verongiida
- Family: Aplysinidae
- Genus: Aiolochroia
- Species: Aiolochroia thiona
Visual Description
Image-derived inspection was not completed in this run: image downloads from the dataset (iNaturalist open-data S3 URLs) repeatedly timed out, so visual traits cannot be reliably summarized from images here.
Species name and status
Aiolochroia thiona is listed as an accepted species name in GBIF, with the basionym Verongia thiona Laubenfels, 1930. It is placed in Demospongiae (order Verongiida) within the family Aplysinidae. [2]
Taxonomic context from integrative revision work (Verongida: Aplysinidae)
An integrative taxonomy study focusing on the genus Aplysina (Demospongiae: Verongida: Aplysinidae) discusses Verongia thiona as a close morphological comparator to a newly described Aplysina species from the Mexican Pacific. In that context, the authors note that it has been suggested (without making a formal transfer decision within the article) that V. thiona should be transferred to the genus Aiolochroia. [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aiolochroia / thiona constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aiolochroia thiona (Laubenfels, 1930). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2239252. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ José Antonio Cruz‐Barraza; José Luís Carballo; Axayácatl Rocha‐Olivares; Hermann Ehrlich; Martin Hog. Integrative Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Genus Aplysina (Demospongiae: Verongida) from Mexican Pacific. PLoS ONE. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042049.