Aplysina insularis
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 insularis
Visual Description
Representative imagery from public biodiversity platforms commonly depicts Aplysina insularis as a sponge with a vivid yellow to golden-yellow coloration and a tubular or tube-like growth form (often described as short, irregular tubes). Individuals are typically pictured as irregularly outlined, with an apical (top) opening region (osculum) visible in some views.
Identity and General Background
- Aplysina insularis* is treated as an accepted species name; GBIF lists it as accepted and provides the currently accepted binomial Aplysina insularis with the basionym Luffaria insularis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864.
The genus Aplysina (family Aplysinidae; order Verongiida) is characterized in genus-level diagnostic frameworks by a “horny sponge” skeletal context typical of Verongiida and by a regular reticulate (reticular) network skeleton composed of polygonal meshes.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aplysina / insularis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.