Axinella australiensis
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 australiensis
Visual Description
Citizen-science imagery under this taxonomic path shows Axinella australiensis as a sessile marine sponge with an arborescent/branching growth form, appearing as a sponge mass with multiple upright projections rather than a thin encrusting sheet.
Taxonomic notes
GBIF lists Axinella australiensis as an accepted species name with authorship “Bergquist, 1970”. GBIF occurrence pages for this taxon are indexed under GBIF backbone species ID 5183097.
Distribution and occurrence
GBIF occurrence data for Axinella australiensis includes records linked to observations from iNaturalist (via GBIF).
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / australiensis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.