Aplysilla sulfurea
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 sulfurea
Visual Description
In Aplysilla (including A. sulfurea), images commonly depict a bright yellow–orange to sulfur-yellow sponge in situ. Specimens are often shown as low, cushion-like or encrusting forms with a fleshy, soft-looking surface and irregular/lobed external contours consistent with dendroceratid sponge morphology.
Species identity and nomenclature
GBIF treats Aplysilla sulfurea as an accepted species name (authorship: Schulze, 1878) with “Sulphur Sponge” as a vernacular name.
Reproduction (general dendroceratid reproductive biology)
A reproductive study of Antarctic demosponges in the order Dendroceratida reports embryo brooding within the sponge mesohyl, with oocytes and embryos present during the reproductive period in most sampled species. The work also describes that reproductive timing may be synchronous among species, but that some taxa may be associated with more single-event spawning patterns whereas others show asynchronous embryo development.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Dendroceratida / Darwinellidae / Aplysilla / sulfurea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.