Asbestopluma ruetzleri
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 ruetzleri
Visual Description
Dataset images (TreeOfLife-200M/GBIF machine observations) show Asbestopluma ruetzleri as a small, dark-bodied sponge photographed underwater, with a body that appears encrusting to loosely attached/raised (rather than a massive solid form). Visible external detail is limited by image resolution, but the overall silhouette is consistent with a cladorhizid (deep-sea) sponge habit.
Species status and nomenclature
GBIF lists Asbestopluma ruetzleri (authorship: Hestetun, Tompkins-Macdonald & Rapp, 2017) as an accepted species name within the genus Asbestopluma (family Cladorhizidae).[2]
Higher-taxon context: Cladorhizidae and carnivory
Cladorhizidae (\"carnivorous sponges\") are deep-sea demosponges whose morphology is linked to capturing prey; global diversity work by van Soest et al. discusses how evidence for carnivory has been inferred from both morphology and observations such as partially digested crustaceans found within sponges exhibiting relevant traits.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Asbestopluma / ruetzleri constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asbestopluma ruetzleri Hestetun, Tompkins-Macdonald & Rapp, 2017. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/9338214. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Rob W. M. van Soest; Nicole Boury‐Esnault; Jean Vacelet; Martin Dohrmann; Dirk Erpenbeck; Nicole J. de Voogd; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; B. Vanhoorne; Michelle Kelly; John N. A. Hooper. Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera). PLoS ONE. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035105.