Axinella dissimilis
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 dissimilis
Visual Description
Across observational and catalogued imagery, Axinella dissimilis is depicted as a branching marine sponge with a noticeably arborescent, tufted growth form (“branching sponge”). Visual records show robust branching/ramifying stalks or lobes forming an overall irregular, tree-like structure; coloration in photographic records ranges from pale to darker tones depending on condition and specimen processing.
Sponge–Microbe Associations and Antibacterial Activity
A study isolating sponge-associated symbiont bacteria from Axinella dissimilis reported two isolates, BSX1 and BSX2. In agar diffusion antibacterial testing against Vibrio parahaemolyticus, both BSX1 and BSX2 produced measurable inhibition zones (BSX1: 7.25 mm; BSX2: 7.15 mm), which the authors interpret as moderate (“sedang”) activity.
The same study reports differing traits for the two isolates: BSX1 is Gram-positive and motile, while BSX2 is Gram-negative and also motile; both were reported as coccus in microscopy and both gave positive catalase results. The authors conclude that symbiont bacteria associated with A. dissimilis can suppress growth of V. parahaemolyticus.
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / dissimilis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.