Aplysina sciophila
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 sciophila
Visual Description
Museum specimens in available image records depict Aplysina sciophila as a sponge with a relatively smooth, arborescent/branching external form. The specimens show lobed or finger-like projections rather than an encrusting growth form, consistent with a branching morphology within Aplysinidae.
Taxonomic status and naming
Aplysina sciophila is listed as an accepted species in GBIF, with authorship Rützler, Piantoni, van Soest & Díaz (2014).[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Verongiida / Aplysinidae / Aplysina / sciophila constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aplysina sciophila Rützler, Piantoni, van Soest & Díaz, 2014. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/7711001. Accessed 2026-07-09.