Aplysina pergamentacea
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 pergamentacea
Visual Description
Note: visual assessment is based on available museum-specimen images referenced in the dataset for this species.[2]
Across the available preserved specimen images, Aplysina pergamentacea appears as a horny, soft-bodied sponge with a gelatinous/compact texture typical of Verongida (Aplysinidae). Specimens are shown as irregularly lobate or cushion-like forms, with a surface appearance that looks smooth to finely irregular rather than strongly spiculate. Museum views also indicate that preserved material can look compressed and opaque, consistent with ex situ specimen preparation.
Distribution and status
GBIF lists Aplysina pergamentacea (Hechtel, 1983) as an accepted species with the record matching the Aplysina genus and Aplysinidae family placement.[2]
Taxonomic notes (integrative taxonomy context)
Integrative taxonomy work on Aplysina emphasizes that species delimitation should ideally combine morphology, skeletal/chemical traits (including chitin in skeleton components), and molecular markers (mitochondrial COI and nuclear rDNA/ITS regions).[3]
The same study also reports that COI may have limited power for DNA barcoding within Aplysina, supporting the use of additional markers such as nuclear ITS for distinguishing closely related taxa.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aplysina / pergamentacea constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aplysina pergamentacea Hechtel, 1983. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2239327. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 José Antonio Cruz‐Barraza; José Luís Carballo; Axayácatl Rocha‐Olivares; Hermann Ehrlich; Martin Hog. Integrative Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Genus Aplysina (Demospongiae: Verongida) from Mexican Pacific. PLoS ONE. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042049.