Aplysina encarnacionae
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 encarnacionae
Visual Description
Aplysina encarnacionae (Aplysinidae) is documented in image datasets as a marine sponge with external morphology consistent with other Aplysina species (commonly massive to lobate/branching growth forms and a generally smooth to softly textured surface). Representative images available for this species name in the TreeOfLife-200M-derived dataset include citizen-science photographs.
Taxonomic Status and Naming
- Aplysina encarnacionae* is listed as an accepted species name in GBIF, with authorship attributed to Gómez, González-Acosta, Sánchez-Ortíz, Hoffman & Hernández-Guerrero (2018).[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aplysina / encarnacionae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aplysina encarnacionae Gómez, González-Acosta, Sánchez-Ortíz, Hoffman & Hernández-Guerrero, 2018. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/10176330. Accessed 2026-07-09.