Amphimedon texotli
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 texotli
Visual Description
Amphimedon texotli is a massive sponge species, notable for its ability to overgrow live coral in Eastern Tropical Pacific reefs.[2] Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that the species exhibits a robust, massive growth form.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Amphimedon texotli is found in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP).[2] Unlike many other sponge species in the ETP, which are typically small, cryptic, or encrusting, A. texotli is one of the few massive species present in these reef environments.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Niphatidae / Amphimedon / texotli constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 José Luís Carballo; José Antonio Cruz‐Barraza; Cristina Vega; Héctor Nava; María del Carmen Chávez-Fuentes. Sponge diversity in Eastern Tropical Pacific coral reefs: an interoceanic comparison. Scientific Reports. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45834-4.