Artemisina plumosa
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 plumosa
Visual Description
Specimens are recorded as preserved museum material (GBIF basis of record: preserved specimen). Available dataset images depict Artemisina plumosa as an arborescent/spreading sponge with multiple slender branches, producing a plume-like/tufted growth form typical of many microcionid sponges. Color varies among specimens in preservation and image lighting, ranging from light beige to grayish tones.
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
GBIF treats Artemisina plumosa as an accepted species, with original authorship Hentschel, 1914.
Molecular information (NCBI)
NCBI places Artemisina plumosa within Porifera → Demospongiae → Poecilosclerida → Microcionidae → Artemisina and associates the species with NCBI taxid 1658067.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Microcionidae / Artemisina / plumosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.