Asteroderma
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Asteroderma
Visual Description
Available records under this class name in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset correspond to fossil museum specimens imaged via biodiversity repositories (e.g., Naturalis Biodiversity Center).[1]
Background: Sponges (Porifera) and diagnostic framework
In standard Porifera biology, sponges are aquatic animals defined by an internal skeleton and a body system of water-conducting passages produced/maintained by flagellated cells (choanocytes).[2]
Skeletal composition is typically categorized as siliceous (opaline silica), calcareous (calcium carbonate), or organic (spongin), and taxa are commonly restricted to one mineral/skeletal type.
Key sponge body-plan terms
Sponge internal organization is commonly described using aquiferous-system architecture types (e.g., ascon, sycon, and rhagon/leucon-like). The rhagon/leucon-like condition is stated to comprise the great majority of sponges (including both Recent and fossil forms).
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Asteroderma constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ M. W. de Laubenfels. Part E, Archaeocyatha, Ch.2, p. 22-66. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. 1955. https://doi.org/10.17161/tip.v0i0.5126.