Aplysilla polyraphis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Dendroceratida
- Family: Darwinellidae
- Genus: Aplysilla
- Species: Aplysilla polyraphis
Visual Description
Images associated with Aplysilla polyraphis show a lobate to slipper-shaped sponge with a soft, compressible body. The surface appears smooth to gently hispid at visible scale, and the sponge is characteristically purple to violet in coloration (matching the GBIF vernacular name “Purple Slippery Sponge”).
Taxonomic Notes
GBIF records Aplysilla polyraphis as an accepted species (de Laubenfels, 1930) within Aplysilla.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Dendroceratida / Darwinellidae / Aplysilla / polyraphis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.