Ancorina robusta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Ancorinidae
- Genus: Ancorina
- Species: Ancorina robusta
Visual Description
Museum specimen photographs for Ancorina robusta (Ancorinidae, Tetractinellida) show a preserved sponge specimen with characteristic ancorinid growth form as recorded in museum collections (Naturalis Biodiversity Center via GBIF).[2]
Species information from taxonomic literature
Ancorina robusta is treated as a species in the demospongiate taxonomic monograph focusing on northern Bass Strait / southern Australia sponge fauna, where it is included within Ancorinidae (order Tetractinellida).[3]
The same monograph describes its systematic accounts as being based on station-based collecting data (with field photographs and, when possible, color notes) and provides details on specimen preparation for sponge morphology/spicule study.[3]
Occurrence and taxonomic status (GBIF)
GBIF lists Ancorina robusta (Carter, 1883) as an accepted species name within Ancorina (Ancorinidae).[2]
Molecular reference (NCBI/GenBank)
NCBI’s taxonomy for Ancorina robusta is available under taxon ID 3290368 within the lineage including Porifera → Demospongiae → Tetractinellida → Ancorinidae → Ancorina.[4]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Ancorinidae / Ancorina / robusta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Ancorina robusta (Carter, 1883). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5793495. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 Felix Wiedenmayer. Demospongiae (Porifera) from northern Bass Strait, southern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria. 1989. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1989.50.01.
- ↑ Ancorina robusta. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid3290368[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.