Axinella arctica
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Axinellida
- Family: Axinellidae
- Genus: Axinella
- Species: Axinella arctica
Visual Description
Axinella arctica is depicted in online image datasets as a horny, stalked/branching sponge with an arctic horn-sponge appearance. Images include both preserved museum specimens and photographs from observations (e.g., Arctic horny sponge), consistent with an axinellid-like, upright morphology.
Distribution and occurrence
GBIF lists Axinella arctica as an accepted species and records the basionym Phakellia arctica (Vosmaer, 1885). GBIF also associates the species with the vernacular name Arctic horny sponge.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / arctica constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.