Alloscleria tenuispinosa
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Axinellida
- Family: Heteroxyidae
- Genus: Alloscleria
- Species: Alloscleria tenuispinosa
Visual Description
The images indexed for Alloscleria tenuispinosa in TreeOfLife-200M depict a marine sponge (phylum Porifera; class Demospongiae) with a preserved-specimen appearance. The external morphology visible in the images is consistent with an axinellid/heteroxyid growth form: a macroscopic, rigid sponge body with firm tissue texture and prominent structural elements (spicule-supported framework) rather than a soft, encrusting sheet. Color appears dark gray to brown in the specimen images. [1]
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
Alloscleria tenuispinosa was described by Topsent in 1927 and is listed as an accepted species name by GBIF. [2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Heteroxyidae / Alloscleria / tenuispinosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Alloscleria tenuispinosa Topsent, 1927. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2250569. Accessed 2026-07-09.