Auloplax
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Sceptrulophora
- Family: Auloplacidae
- Genus: Auloplax
Visual Description
In the TreeOfLife-200M image set for Auloplax, specimens are commonly shown as flat, sheet-like or encrusting glass-sponge body forms (rather than tall, vase-shaped forms). Externally, the sponge surface often appears as an irregular, thin layer with a fine skeletal/structural pattern visible at or near the surface, consistent with the light-colored, siliceous skeleton typical of Hexactinellida.
Identity & Nomenclature
Auloplax is an accepted genus name attributed to Schulze (1904) in GBIF’s taxonomic treatment for the genus.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Sceptrulophora / Auloplacidae / Auloplax constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Auloplax Schulze, 1904. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2235944. Accessed 2026-07-09.