Antarctotetilla
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Tetillidae
- Genus: Antarctotetilla
Visual Description
Antarctotetilla (Tetillidae) is represented in museum specimen imagery as a small, preserved sponge form typical of tetillid sponges (compact body with an ectosomal surface visible in specimen photographs). The available images under this genus path correspond to Antarctotetilla leptoderma in GBIF/Naturalis Biodiversity Center records. [1]
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
Antarctotetilla Carella, Agell, Cárdenas & Uriz, 2016 is treated as an accepted genus in GBIF. [2]
Species associations and biotic interactions
Global Biotic Interactions records Antarctotetilla taxa (including Antarctotetilla leptoderma) in interaction datasets as prey for predatory asteroids (starfish, Asteroidea), with examples including Acodontaster conspicuus and Acodontaster hodgsoni. [3]
Molecular/genetic resources
NCBI links Antarctotetilla to taxid 1977253, placing the genus in Demospongiae (Tetractinellida, Tetillidae). [4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Tetillidae / Antarctotetilla constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Antarctotetilla Carella, Agell, Cárdenas & Uriz, 2016. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/8885622. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Antarctotetilla. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Antarctotetilla. Accessed 2026-07-10.
- ↑ Antarctotetilla. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1977253[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.