Aulospongus gardineri
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Axinellida
- Family: Raspailiidae
- Genus: Aulospongus
- Species: Aulospongus gardineri
Visual Description
Museum specimen images indicate a sponge with a preserved, irregularly lobate external form. The visible surface appears uneven and texture-rich, consistent with an axinellid/raspailiid-like growth form in which the sponge body is firm and can form lobes or compressed masses in preservation.
Species Status and Nomenclature
GBIF lists Aulospongus gardineri (Dendy, 1922) as an accepted species name, and provides a basionym as Plumohalichondria gardineri Dendy, 1922.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Raspailiidae / Aulospongus / gardineri constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.