Auletta
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Axinellida
- Family: Axinellidae
- Genus: Auletta
Visual Description
In museum specimen imagery for Auletta (Axinellidae), the sponge body is typically depicted as an upright, branched form consistent with a hollow, tube-like cylinder architecture (often appearing grey to light blue in preserved material), with small internal skeletal elements (spicules) not readily visible at the specimen-image scale.[2]
Culturing and Experimental Observations
A practical aquaculture/culture approach for Auletta sp. is to propagate individuals from fragments and transplant them to sea cages. In an experiment using a floating cage system at ~7 m depth, fragments of different starting lengths were tied to a polyethylene net substrate and monitored by measuring total length over multiple intervals up to at least 75 days.[2]
Key reported outcomes include:
- Growth: initial fragment length significantly affected growth (total length increase). Starting with 3 cm and 5 cm fragments produced similar growth patterns and outperformed 1 cm fragments in the comparison reported by the authors.[2]
- Survival: survival also depended on fragment length; 1 cm fragments had lower survival, while 3 cm and 5 cm showed higher survival with no significant difference between 3 cm and 5 cm in the study.[2]
- Practical recommendation (from tested treatments): 3 cm fragments were identified as the best balance among the tested starting sizes for transplantation-based culture of Auletta sp.[2]
The study also monitored abiotic variables (e.g., temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, and water clarity) as covariates during the trial.[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Auletta constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Petrus Rani Pong-Masak; Rachmansyah Rachmansyah. PERTUMBUHAN SPONGE (Auletta sp.) SECARA TRANSPLANTASI DENGAN PANJANG BENIH BERBEDA. Jurnal Penelitian Perikanan Indonesia. 2017. https://doi.org/10.15578/jppi.8.5.2002.49-54.