Artemisina apollinis
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Microcionidae
- Genus: Artemisina
- Species: Artemisina apollinis
Visual Description
The GBIF-linked museum specimen image shows Artemisina apollinis as a sponge with an irregular external form (encrusting to digitate/branching in overall aspect), consistent with growth forms typically displayed by many Microcionidae/Poecilosclerida demosponges.
Distribution and Occurrence
Artemisina apollinis is recognized as an accepted species name (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) in GBIF and is associated with the vernacular name ornamental horny sponge.
Antarctic Records
In a study of demosponges from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica), A. apollinis is reported among the most frequently collected demosponges in the region.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Microcionidae / Artemisina / apollinis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.