Amphibleptula madrepora
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Scleritodermidae
- Genus: Amphibleptula
- Species: Amphibleptula madrepora
Visual Description
Dataset images for Amphibleptula madrepora are museum specimen photographs (preserved material; invertebrate zoology), as represented in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset view. The images depict a sponge specimen with a firm, encrusting-to-massive growth form typical of catalogued demosponges in preserved collections.
Across the available views, the specimen surface appears structured (with a textured exterior rather than a smooth sheet), and the overall body form is compact rather than highly elongate.
Nomenclature and Status
GBIF lists Amphibleptula madrepora as an accepted species name with authorship Schmidt, 1879.[2]
Species Notes
A Porifera checklist source used in this workflow provides family-level and species-level entries for some Amphibleptula taxa, but the specific checklist text available here does not confirm Amphibleptula madrepora as a listed Scleritodermidae species. As a result, no checklist-derived species-specific distribution or diagnostic notes for this species are incorporated from that source.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Scleritodermidae / Amphibleptula / madrepora constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Amphibleptula madrepora Schmidt, 1879. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2252224. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ G. Sivaleela; C. Raghunathan. Porifera. . 2024. https://doi.org/10.26515/fauna/1/2023/porifera.