Astrosclera
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Agelasida
- Family: Astroscleridae
- Genus: Astrosclera
Visual Description
Available specimen images for Astrosclera in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset show sponge bodies that appear hard and mineralized (i.e., “sclerosponges” as reflected in image metadata), with a textured, rigid-looking exterior surface consistent with a heavily mineralized skeletal component.
General Description
Astrosclera is a genus of demosponges within the order Agelasida and family Astroscleridae.
Nomenclature
The genus name Astrosclera is attributed to Lister (1900) in GBIF’s accepted taxonomy record.
Biology and Ecology
In Astrosclera willeyana, a study reported spatial distributions of prokaryotic symbionts and investigated nitrogen transformation processes (including ammoxidation and denitrifier activity).
Genetic Resources
NCBI nucleotide taxonomy indicates available sequence records under the genus Astrosclera (taxid 85809).
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Agelasida / Astroscleridae / Astrosclera constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.