Aplysinopsis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Dictyoceratida
- Family: Thorectidae
- Genus: Aplysinopsis
Visual Description
Individuals assigned to Aplysinopsis (Thorectidae; order Dictyoceratida) are shown in the dataset imagery as marine sponges preserved as museum specimens, with the taxon name applied at genus level and, in some records, at species level (e.g., Aplysinopsis elegans).[1]
Taxonomic Notes
- Aplysinopsis* is recognized as an accepted genus in Thorectidae in occurrence/taxon databases.[2]
In an inventory of sponges from Clipperton Island (East Pacific), Aplysinopsis is treated within Thorectidae (Dictyoceratida) and includes a formally described species, Aplysinopsis bergquistae n. sp., indicating the genus occurs in the sampled reef-associated sponge fauna of the region.[3]
Distribution and Occurrence (general)
Records aggregated through major biodiversity data portals indicate that Aplysinopsis is present in museum/specimen datasets for multiple named species (e.g., A. elegans), and the genus-level taxon is used for specimen labeling and cataloguing.[2]
Genus-level Records in Nucleotide Databases
NCBI nucleotide searches include a Aplysinopsis taxon (tax_id 1163032) in nucleotide/organism-exp searches, consistent with the genus being represented in sequence-linked records.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Dictyoceratida / Thorectidae / Aplysinopsis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aplysinopsis Lendenfeld, 1888. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2238955. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ ROB W. M. VAN SOEST; Kirstie L. Kaiser; Robert Van Syoc. Sponges from Clipperton Island, East Pacific. Zootaxa. 2011. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2839.1.1.
- ↑ Aplysinopsis. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1163032[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.