Atlantisella
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Lyssacinosida
- Family: Euplectellidae
- Genus: Atlantisella
Overview
Atlantisella is a genus of glass sponges (Phylum Porifera; Class Hexactinellida) placed in the order Lyssacinosida and family Euplectellidae. GBIF lists Atlantisella (authorship: Tabachnick, 2002) as an accepted genus taxon. [2]
Visual Description
Deep-sea imagery associated with GBIF-linked records of Atlantisella shows a sponge with a light/whitish, translucent body and a reticulate (mesh-like) surface pattern, consistent with the exposed lattice/siliceous skeletal architecture typical of hexactinellid (“glass sponge”) sponges. [2]
Note: this section describes visual traits observable in the linked GBIF image records, not diagnostic microcharacters.
Diversity and data context
Large-scale sponge diversity syntheses note that apparent global patterns are strongly influenced by sampling intensity and taxonomic effort; therefore, richness and distribution signals in aggregated datasets may partially reflect research bias, particularly for deeper-water taxa such as Lyssacinosida. [3]
Molecular resources
NCBI’s taxonomy browser includes Atlantisella under Porifera/Hexactinellida/Lyssacinosida/Euplectellidae, providing an entry point for any nucleotide records associated with this genus. [4]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Lyssacinosida / Euplectellidae / Atlantisella constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Atlantisella Tabachnick, 2002. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2236318. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Rob W. M. van Soest; Nicole Boury‐Esnault; Jean Vacelet; Martin Dohrmann; Dirk Erpenbeck; Nicole J. de Voogd; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; B. Vanhoorne; Michelle Kelly; John N. A. Hooper. Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera). PLoS ONE. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035105.
- ↑ Atlantisella. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid1909179[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-10.