Axinella polycapella
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 polycapella
Visual Description
Online biodiversity images for Axinella polycapella (field observations and preserved specimens) typically depict an erect sponge growth form with tufted/branching projections and a fibrous to porous external surface consistent with demosponges.
Species Notes
Chemical associates and anaerobic metabolism
A study links Axinella polycapella to hydroxyhydroquinone (1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene), discussing its antimicrobial relevance in this sponge-associated context. The work further describes an obligately anaerobic fermenting bacterium capable of using hydroxyhydroquinone as its sole carbon and energy source. (The bacterium is not a sponge taxon.)[2]
Name status
GBIF treats Axinella polycapella de Laubenfels, 1953 as an accepted species name.[3]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / polycapella constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Sylvia Schnell; Andreas Brune; Bernhard Schink. Degradation of hydroxyhydroquinone by the strictly anaerobic fermenting bacterium Pelobacter massiliensis sp. nov.. Archives of Microbiology. 1991. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00244971.
- ↑ Axinella polycapella de Laubenfels, 1953. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183143. Accessed 2026-07-09.