This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
Digital imagery in TreeOfLife-200M shows Amphoriscus ancora as a small calcarea sponge with the typical leucosolenid/“asconoid” habit expected for Amphoriscidae—i.e., a tube-forming or cup-/branch-like arrangement of the body that is visually recognizable at image scale in WoRMS/EOL-hosted photographs. [1]
The accepted name is Amphoriscus ancora with authorship attributed to Van Soest (2017). [2]
This species was described as a new species in Van Soest’s Sponges of the Guyana Shelf (Zootaxa, 2017). [3]