Amphimedon complanata
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 complanata
Visual Description
Museum specimens photographed/hosted through GBIF-linked collections show a calcareous-free, soft-bodied demosponge (Phylum Porifera) with the typical appearance of Amphimedon material as preserved in invertebrate museum collections (e.g., Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Yale Peabody Museum cataloged specimens). The images used here are museum-specimen photographs rather than in situ underwater images. [2]
Nomenclature and status
Amphimedon complanata is treated as an accepted species name by GBIF, with the original basionym given as Spongia complanata Duchassaing de Fontbressin, 1850; the species authority is cited as (Duchassaing, 1850). [2]
Type material / treatment database record
A TreatmentBank record is available for Amphimedon complanata Duchassaing 1850 in Plazi’s database, which aggregates taxonomic treatment content associated with the name. [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Niphatidae / Amphimedon / complanata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Amphimedon complanata (Duchassaing, 1850). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2245333. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Amphimedon complanata Duchassaing 1850 - Plazi TreatmentBank. Plazi TreatmentBank. http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/03BB02496072FFCEFF54D27A822DBEBE. Accessed 2026-07-11.