Axinella rugosa
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 rugosa
Visual Description
In available images linked to Axinella rugosa, the sponge habit is generally robust and textured. Specimens show a roughened surface and can form columnar or finger-like projections in at least some records.
For Axinellidae context, descriptions in Axinella spp.-focused work report lightly hispid, firm-bodied sponges with bright coloration in life, supported by plurispicular fibre skeletons with spongin meshes.[2]
Taxonomic status and nomenclature
GBIF lists Axinella rugosa (Bowerbank, 1866) as an accepted species and provides the basionym Dictyocylindrus rugosus Bowerbank, 1866.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / rugosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Marco Bertolino; Gabriele Costa; Giorgio Bavestrello; Maurizio Pansini; Giovanni Daneri. New sponge species from Seno Magdalena, Puyuhuapi Fjord and Jacaf Canal (Chile). European Journal of Taxonomy. 2020. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.715.