Axinella digitiformis
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 digitiformis
Visual Description
Specimens attributed to Axinella digitiformis show a finger-like (“digitiform”) morphology, consistent with the species epithet, with an overall erect to upright growth form typical of many Axinella sponges. Images across museum-preserved material and citizen-science observations depict the species as a sponge with branching/columnar projections rather than a flat encrusting habit.
Species Status and Authorship (GBIF)
GBIF treats Axinella digitiformis Lehnert & van Soest, 1996 as an accepted species name. [2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / digitiformis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Axinella digitiformis Lehnert & van Soest, 1996. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183169. Accessed 2026-07-09.