Aulosaccus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Lyssacinosida
- Family: Rossellidae
- Genus: Aulosaccus
Visual Description
In the curated TreeOfLife-200M/GBIF specimen dataset, Aulosaccus appears as a preserved hexactinellid (glass sponge) specimen in a museum context (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University).[1]
Taxonomic Notes (Rossellidae context)
Integrative taxonomy studies of Rossellidae’s so-called “Rossella complex” emphasize that molecular phylogenies can reveal lineage conflict among morphologically similar taxa. In particular, North Atlantic “Rossella” lineages are placed into a distinct genus (Nodastrella), and Aulosaccus is recovered as part of the broader Rossellidae clade-level relationships adjacent to that lineage in multi-locus analyses.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Lyssacinosida / Rossellidae / Aulosaccus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Martin Dohrmann; Christian Göcke; John K. Reed; Dorte Janussen. Integrative taxonomy justifies a new genus, Nodastrella gen. nov., for North Atlantic "Rossella" species (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Rossellidae). Zootaxa. 2012. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3383.1.1.