Asconema foliatum
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Lyssacinosida
- Family: Rossellidae
- Genus: Asconema
- Species: Asconema foliatum
Species overview
Asconema foliatum is an accepted species name of the glass sponge genus Asconema (class Hexactinellida). GBIF lists the species with the vernacular name “leafy glass sponge,” and provides the basionym as Hyalonema foliatum Fristedt (1887). [2]
Visual Description
Specimen images linked to GBIF for Asconema foliatum correspond to the “leafy glass sponge” form—thin, plate-like or frond-like (lamellar) glass sponge tissue. [2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Lyssacinosida / Rossellidae / Asconema / foliatum constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Asconema foliatum (Fristedt, 1887). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5180137. Accessed 2026-07-09.