Antho karykina
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 karykina
Scientific name and authorship
GBIF records the accepted name as Antho karykina (de Laubenfels, 1927). The basionym shown by GBIF is Plocamia karykina de Laubenfels, 1927. [2]
Vernacular name recorded by GBIF: smooth red sponge. [2]
Ecology and biotic interactions
Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) records feeding interactions involving Antho (Plocamia) karykina and the nudibranch Rostanga pulchra. [3]
Visual Description
Images associated with Antho karykina in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset are predominantly museum-style specimen images, cataloged as preserved specimens (museum invertebrate zoology material; Yale University Peabody Museum in the GBIF-derived image set). [1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Microcionidae / Antho / karykina constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Antho karykina (de Laubenfels, 1927). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2240750. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 3 Antho karykina. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Antho%20karykina. Accessed 2026-07-10.