Amphimedon queenslandica
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 queenslandica
Visual Description
Sponges in Amphimedon are typically depicted as encrusting to thickly cushion-like forms on hard substrate; the species A. queenslandica is commonly shown in photographs as a small, attached sponge with a firm, compact body plan rather than an actively mobile organism.
Species status and records
Amphimedon queenslandica is accepted in GBIF taxonomy as “Amphimedon queenslandica Hooper & van Soest, 2006”.[2]
Developmental signaling (research use)
Studies of Amphimedon queenslandica have shown that Wnt and TGF-β signaling ligands are expressed during early embryogenesis, with distinct spatial patterns that change through development.[3]
In particular, as embryos establish anterior–posterior polarity, Wnt expression localizes to the posterior pole while TGF-β expression is highest at the anterior pole; later, the expression patterns intersect in a pigment-ring region associated with later developmental patterning.[3]
Molecular and interaction data
The species has sequence records indexed in NCBI Nucleotide under the taxon term “Amphimedon queenslandica”.[4]
Global Biotic Interactions compiles curated interaction associations for Amphimedon queenslandica (including bacterial interactions and pathogen links).[5]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Niphatidae / Amphimedon / queenslandica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Amphimedon queenslandica Hooper & van Soest, 2006. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2245332. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 Maja Adamska; Sandie M. Degnan; Kathryn M. Green; Marcin Adamski; Alina Craigie; Claire Larroux; Bernard M. Degnan. Wnt and TGF-β Expression in the Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica and the Origin of Metazoan Embryonic Patterning. PLoS ONE. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001031.
- ↑ Amphimedon queenslandica. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid400682[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.
- ↑ Amphimedon queenslandica. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Amphimedon%20queenslandica. Accessed 2026-07-10.