Axinella aruensis
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 aruensis
Visual Description
Specimens attributed to Axinella aruensis in the available image sources appear as yellow to orange-brown sponge growths with a branching and/or lobate form, consistent with axinellid sponge morphology.
Distribution and Occurrence
Axinella aruensis is recognized as an accepted species name in GBIF, with the nomenclatural authorship given as (Hentschel, 1912).[2]
Notes on Taxonomic/Survey Context
In a species-level inventory of sponges from the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve (northern Australia), the study highlights that many sponge species recorded from the region were taxonomically undescribed at the time of sampling (only ~18% of the identified species were previously taxonomically described).[3]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / aruensis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Axinella aruensis (Hentschel, 1912). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183116. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Rachel Przeslawski; Belinda Alvarez; Johnathan Kool; Tom C. L. Bridge; M. Julian Caley; Scott Nichol. Implications of Sponge Biodiversity Patterns for the Management of a Marine Reserve in Northern Australia. PLoS ONE. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141813.