Axinella waltonsmithi
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 waltonsmithi
Visual Description
Available images for this taxon in the provided dataset are museum specimen photographs (basis of record: PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; data source: GBIF).[1]
Note: In this environment, the downloaded image files could not be rendered for direct visual inspection, so specific external morphology (e.g., habit, surface texture, coloration) is not reliably describable from the images here.
Nomenclature and Status
Axinella waltonsmithi is treated as an accepted species in GBIF, with the binomial given as Axinella waltonsmithi (de Laubenfels, 1953).[2]
The GBIF record also indicates the basionym Homaxinella waltonsmithi de Laubenfels, 1953.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / waltonsmithi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Axinella waltonsmithi (de Laubenfels, 1953). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/5183131. Accessed 2026-07-09.