Aplysina cavernicola
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 cavernicola
Overview
Aplysina cavernicola is an Aplysinidae sponge (class Demospongiae) recorded as an accepted species in global biodiversity databases (including GBIF). It is also associated with the common name “yellow cave-sponge.”[2]
Visual Description
In available photographic records, A. cavernicola appears as a yellow to yellow-orange sponge, typically forming encrusting to cushion-like growths on hard substrata (including cave-associated or sheltered marine habitats).
Ecology and physiology (related Aplysina sponge oxygenation)
Within Aplysinidae sponges, tissue oxygenation can depend strongly on water-flow and pumping behavior. In studies of Aplysina sponges, removing active pumping can lead to rapid onset of tissue anoxia, while pumping supports continued oxygenation; under non-pumping conditions, molecular diffusion can be the limiting transport mechanism into tissue. This mechanistic framework is relevant for understanding oxygen dynamics in closely related A. cavernicola.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aplysina / cavernicola constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aplysina cavernicola (Vacelet, 1959). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2239295. Accessed 2026-07-09.