Amphimedon caribica
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Haplosclerida
- Family: Niphatidae
- Genus: Amphimedon
- Species: Amphimedon caribica
Visual Description
Images in occurrence datasets depict Amphimedon caribica as a shallow-water marine sponge typically shown as an encrusting to massive form on hard substrate, with a smooth to finely hispid-looking surface and a generally pale coloration (often light cream to beige) in field photographs. Museum specimen images similarly present the sponge as a preserved encrusting/massive body rather than a thin, delicate branching form. [2]
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
GBIF lists Amphimedon caribica as an accepted species (authorship: (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)). GBIF also indicates the basionym Cribrochalina caribica Pulitzer-Finali, 1986. [2]
Genetic resources
NCBI records for Amphimedon caribica are indexed under taxid 3290301. [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Niphatidae / Amphimedon / caribica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Amphimedon caribica (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2245382. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Amphimedon caribica. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid3290301[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.