Aplysina bathyphila
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Verongiida
- Family: Aplysinidae
- Genus: Aplysina
- Species: Aplysina bathyphila
Visual Description
Notes from specimen/occurrence images
Images associated with records of Aplysina bathyphila in the GBIF/iNaturalist and museum collections show demosponges in the genus Aplysina (family Aplysinidae). Reported imagery in these datasets is consistent with typical Aplysina growth forms (stalked or lobate tissue surfaces depending on growth stage and preservation) rather than thin encrusting morphologies. (Visuals vary across records due to preservation state, substrate, and camera perspective.)[2]
Species identity and nomenclature
Aplysina bathyphila is treated as an accepted species name in GBIF, with authorship “Maldonado & Young, 1998”.[2]
Known biotic interactions (symbiosis)
Global Biotic Interactions reports an interaction where Aplysina bathyphila is listed as the “symbiontOf” host for the polychaete Haplosyllis aplysinicola.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aplysina / bathyphila constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aplysina bathyphila Maldonado & Young, 1998. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2239274. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Aplysina bathyphila. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Aplysina%20bathyphila. Accessed 2026-07-10.