Antho dichotoma
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Microcionidae
- Genus: Antho
- Species: Antho dichotoma
Visual Description
Dataset image examples for Antho dichotoma show a sponge with a branched, dichotomous growth form (the species epithet “dichotoma” refers to this tendency toward repeated splitting). Observed morphologies range from a more shrub-like, multi-branch habit to more compact forms, with the external surface appearing relatively even to finely textured at image scale.
Identity, nomenclature, and status (GBIF)
GBIF lists Antho dichotoma as an accepted species name, with authorship attributed to (Linnaeus, 1767). GBIF also notes a basionym of Spongia dichotoma Linnaeus, 1767. [2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Microcionidae / Antho / dichotoma constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Antho dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1767). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2240730. Accessed 2026-07-09.