Amphibleptula
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Scleritodermidae
- Genus: Amphibleptula
Visual Description
Museum specimens attributed to Amphibleptula (including the species Amphibleptula madrepora) are typically documented in natural history collections as preserved sponge invertebrate material (museum specimen photography).[2]
Nomenclature and Taxonomic Status
Amphibleptula was described by Schmidt in 1879 and is treated as an accepted genus name in taxonomic databases that align it to the family Scleritodermidae within the order Tetractinellida (Demospongiae).[2]
Molecular data availability
NCBI nucleotide resources place Amphibleptula within Demospongiae (Tetractinellida) and Scleritodermidae, consistent with the genus-level classification used by sequence/identifier systems under the Amphibleptula taxon.[3]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Scleritodermidae / Amphibleptula constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Amphibleptula Schmidt, 1879. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2252223. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Amphibleptula. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid2593539[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.