Asbestopluma rickettsi
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 rickettsi
Visual Description
Selected occurrence imagery for Asbestopluma rickettsi is consistent with a cladorhizid (“hitchhiker”) sponge appearance in deep-sea video/frame-grab context (i.e., a small, irregular sponge body visible in situ among surrounding substrate/features).[1]
Identity and nomenclature
Asbestopluma rickettsi was described by Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin in 2014.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Asbestopluma / rickettsi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asbestopluma rickettsi Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/7769406. Accessed 2026-07-09.