Arenosclera arabica
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Haplosclerida
- Family: Callyspongiidae
- Genus: Arenosclera
- Species: Arenosclera arabica
Visual Description
Museum-specimen images associated with Arenosclera arabica (GBIF/Naturalis Biodiversity Center) show preserved sponge material photographed in a laboratory setting. The specimens appear as compact, irregularly shaped sponge bodies with a dark (often brown to black) external surface and lighter internal areas visible in some views.
Species Status and Nomenclature
- A. arabica* is accepted by GBIF under the combination Arenosclera arabica (Keller, 1889), and is listed with a basionym of Arenochalina arabica Keller, 1889.[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Haplosclerida / Callyspongiidae / Arenosclera / arabica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Arenosclera arabica (Keller, 1889). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2245641. Accessed 2026-07-09.