Aulospongus monticularis
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 monticularis
Visual Description
Specimens identified as Aulospongus monticularis (museum/institutional preserved material) appear as compact to lobate sponge bodies with a dull to matte surface. Visible morphology in the dataset images suggests an encrusting to cushion-like growth form rather than thin sheet-like tissue.
Classification Notes
- Aulospongus monticularis* is treated as an accepted species name in GBIF, with the basionym given as Axinella monticularis Ridley & Dendy (1886).[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Raspailiidae / Aulospongus / monticularis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aulospongus monticularis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2244022. Accessed 2026-07-09.