Aulocalycidae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Lyssacinosida
- Family: Aulocalycidae
Overview
Aulocalycidae is a family of deep-sea glass sponges (Hexactinellida) within the order Lyssacinosida. Members of the family are known from very deep bathyal to abyssal settings based on dredge and specimen records.
Distribution and depth (selected evidence)
A ZooKeys taxonomic study documenting Indiella ridgenensis includes material collected by deep-sea dredging at 2589 m on the Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean, supporting the occurrence of Aulocalycidae in very deep environments.
Systematics and diagnostic characters (family-relevant highlights)
New genus/species diagnoses within Aulocalycidae continue to refine family-level morphological variation. For example, the ZooKeys study of Indiella ridgenensis emphasizes (among other traits) longitudinal strands in several layers of the sponge framework and channelization associated with epirhyses (i.e., a channel-like organization related to epirhyses).
Visual Description
Aulocalycidae specimens depicted in biodiversity and training image collections commonly appear as glass sponges with an upright, rigid-looking silhouette and a mineral “lattice” texture. In available images associated with Aulocalycidae records, the skeletal surface can look mesh-like with aligned structural elements, consistent with hexactinellid canal system architecture.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Lyssacinosida / Aulocalycidae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.