Aplysilla rosea
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 rosea
Visual Description
Aplysilla rosea is an encrusting sponge. In field/citizen-science images, it appears as a roughly spreading surface on the substrate, forming a thin to moderately thick sheet rather than a tall stalk or massive boulder. The surface texture looks smooth to slightly irregular, and the overall coloration is typically pinkish to rose-colored (consistent with the species epithet “rosea”).
Distribution and occurrence
GBIF lists Aplysilla rosea as an accepted species name (Aplysilla rosea (Barrois, 1876)).[2]
Research model and host–microbe interactions
Aplysilla rosea has been used experimentally to study sponge–bacteria interactions. A controlled aquarium study maintained sponge explants in recirculating aquaria and challenged them with the foreign marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens; experiments were run for up to 48 hours because sponge health declined with longer exposures.[3]
In that study, V. natriegens increased rapidly in tanks without sponge, but declined strongly in the presence of the sponge at early time points; sponge-associated microbial community structure and diversity also shifted with time and with bacterial exposure.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Dendroceratida / Darwinellidae / Aplysilla / rosea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aplysilla rosea (Barrois, 1876). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2248675. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 Mohammad F. Mehbub; Jason E. Tanner; Stephen J. Barnett; J. F. Bekker; Christopher M. M. Franco; Wei Zhang. A controlled aquarium system and approach to study the role of sponge-bacteria interactions using Aplysilla rosea and Vibrio natriegens. Scientific Reports. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30295-y.