Asceptrulum
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Sceptrulophora
- Family: Farreidae
- Genus: Asceptrulum
Visual Description
Members of Asceptrulum (Farreidae; glass sponges) are depicted in occurrence-style image resources as benthic, sessile hexactinellid sponges with a glassy siliceous skeleton. The images typically emphasize the siliceous framework/spicule architecture, giving a delicate, lattice-like appearance that reflects the underlying skeletal scaffold (rather than soft tissues).
Nomenclature and Taxonomic Status
Asceptrulum was described by Duplessis & Reiswig (2004) and is treated as an accepted genus in GBIF for the corresponding taxon record.[2]
Taxonomic Context (generalizable)
Hexactinellid (glass sponge) classification relies on siliceous spicule characters (types and arrangements) and—where available—integrative phylogenetic frameworks that combine multi-marker molecular evidence with genus-level morphological character matrices. These approaches can lead to reevaluation of higher-level relationships when molecular and morphological signals differ, and they highlight the evolutionary importance of diagnostic skeletal micromorphologies.[3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Sceptrulophora / Farreidae / Asceptrulum constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asceptrulum Duplessis & Reiswig, 2004. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2235784. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Martin Dohrmann; Christopher Kelley; Michelle Kelly; Andrzej Pisera; John N. A. Hooper; Henry M. Reiswig. An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Frontiers in Zoology. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3.