Amphimedon viridis
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 viridis
Visual Description
Habit & coloration (from images)
Occurrence photographs and museum/specimen images of Amphimedon viridis depict a conspicuously green sponge (“green sponge”/“green” common-name usage in occurrence metadata), with an encrusting-to-massive habit in many records.
Figure (example specimen/observation): Representative images in the TreeOfLife-200M-derived set show the characteristic green coloration.
Research Notes (bioactive molecules)
A 2015 dissertation describes Amphimedon viridis as a source for “new bioactive molecules,” combining chemical fractionation of sponge extracts with cell dissociation and transcriptomics (next-generation sequencing with de novo transcriptome assembly). The study proposes integrating extract fraction profiles with mRNA/transcript data to support candidate compound/precursor identification, and reports bioactivity testing using MTS assays along with confocal microscopy to assess damage in cultured tumor cells (T47D).
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Niphatidae / Amphimedon / viridis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.