Astrocladiidae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Astrocladiidae
Overview
Astrocladiidae is treated as a class within the Porifera (sponges). In modern biodiversity databases it is listed as an accepted taxon name at the class level. [2]
Visual Description
Available specimen imagery for this class (as represented in the TreeOfLife-200M image set under this taxonomic path) shows a branching, dendritic morphology associated with Microdendron ramulosum (fossil museum specimen records). [1]
Notes on Sources
A reviewed biomedical/pharmaceutical source retrieved for this ingest workflow discusses “in situ gel systems” in ocular drug delivery, and does not provide directly confirmable taxonomic, morphological, ecological, or evolutionary information specific to Astrocladiidae. [3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Astrocladiidae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Astrocladiidae. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/3251563. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ R. E. H. Reid. Part E, Porifera (Revised), vol. 3, Ch. 3, p. 199-238. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. 2004. https://doi.org/10.17161/dt.v0i0.5147.