Amphimedon jalae
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 jalae
Visual Description
Dataset images for Amphimedon jalae (museum specimens) show a soft-bodied sponge with a thick, encrusting to massive habit. Specimens appear as irregular lobes/plates with a textured surface consistent with a demosponge body plan; the overall coloration in the images ranges from pale cream to light tan.
Species identity and nomenclature
Amphimedon jalae is listed by GBIF as an accepted species name (Helmy & van Soest, 2005) within Amphimedon (Niphatidae, Haplosclerida).[2]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Niphatidae / Amphimedon / jalae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Amphimedon jalae Helmy & van Soest, 2005. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/4350834. Accessed 2026-07-09.