Amphidiscella
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Lyssacinosida
- Family: Euplectellidae
- Genus: Amphidiscella
Overview
Amphidiscella is a genus of hexactinellid (“glass”) sponges in the family Euplectellidae, within the order Lyssacinosida. In biodiversity databases, Amphidiscella is treated as accepted, with authorship attributed to Tabachnick & Lévi (1997).[2]
Species and occurrence notes
GBIF reports that Amphidiscella has multiple descendant taxa (numDescendants: 7 in the GBIF match output provided).[2]
Visual Description
Images linked to Amphidiscella records (including preserved-specimen and photographic/ROV-derived views) reflect typical euplectellid/lyssacinosid glass-sponge morphologies: rigid, lattice-like siliceous frameworks forming stalked or branched/tube-like growth forms in gallery-style documentation.[1]
Research relevance (sponge eDNA as a biodiversity tool)
Sponge-derived environmental DNA (eDNA) has been used to detect demersal fish biodiversity on deep-sea seamounts by treating sponge tissue as a “natural filtration” substrate. In the cited study, sponges of the class Hexactinellida showed the highest fish detection rates, and Amphidiscella occurs among the sponge taxa included for detection modeling (as Amphidiscella monai).[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Lyssacinosida / Euplectellidae / Amphidiscella constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Amphidiscella Tabachnick & Lévi, 1997. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2236396. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Ole Brodnicke; Heidi Kristina Meyer; Kathrin Busch; Joana R. Xavier; Steen Wilhelm Knudsen; Peter Rask Møller; Ute Hentschel; Michael Sweet. Deep‐sea sponge derived environmental <scp>DNA</scp> analysis reveals demersal fish biodiversity of a remote Arctic ecosystem. Environmental DNA. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.451.