Aphrocallistes vastus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Sceptrulophora
- Family: Aphrocallistidae
- Genus: Aphrocallistes
- Species: Aphrocallistes vastus
Visual Description
- Aphrocallistes vastus is a hexactinellid (“glass sponge”) with a soft-looking, cloudlike body form commonly referred to as a “cloud sponge.”
General Biology and Significance
- Aphrocallistes vastus is an accepted species name (authored as Aphrocallistes vastus Schulze, 1886) in GBIF.[2]
Mitochondrial Genome Notes (Genomic/Comparative Use)
- A complete mitochondrial genome has been reported for Aphrocallistes vastus, including a circular 17,427 bp mtDNA molecule with 13 protein-coding genes, divergent large and small rRNAs, and a reduced tRNA complement.[3]
- The study reports sequence features in mitochondrial genes consistent with programmed translational frameshifting, including shift sites interpreted as +1 frameshifting associated with cox3 and nad6.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Sceptrulophora / Aphrocallistidae / Aphrocallistes / vastus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aphrocallistes vastus Schulze, 1886. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2235961. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 Rafael D. Rosengarten; Erik A. Sperling; Maria A. Moreno; Sally P. Leys; Stephen L. Dellaporta. The mitochondrial genome of the hexactinellid sponge Aphrocallistes vastus: Evidence for programmed translational frameshifting. BMC Genomics. 2008. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-33.