Asbestopluma pennatula
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Cladorhizidae
- Genus: Asbestopluma
- Species: Asbestopluma pennatula
Visual Description
Museum specimens in GBIF-associated image records show Asbestopluma pennatula as a distinctive “feathered”/branched cladorhizid sponge form (image data from Naturalis Biodiversity Center specimens linked via GBIF).[2]
Distribution and occurrence
Asbestopluma pennatula is listed in GBIF as an accepted species (Schmidt, 1875) with records associated to marine sponge collections.[2]
Nomenclature
The basionym is provided by GBIF as Cladorhiza pennatula (Schmidt, 1875), with the currently accepted combination Asbestopluma pennatula (Schmidt, 1875).[2]
Molecular resources
NCBI’s taxonomy/sequence resources include Asbestopluma pennatula under taxon ID 1688446 (searched via Nucleotide “txid1688446[organism:exp]”).[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Asbestopluma / pennatula constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 Asbestopluma pennatula (Schmidt, 1875). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2243493. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Asbestopluma pennatula. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1688446[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.