Axinella weltnerii
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 weltnerii
Visual Description
Specimen/observation images associated with Axinella weltnerii show a conspicuous, folded or crumpled sponge body form (often described by a common name as a “crumpled sponge”), with irregular surface ridges and lobes rather than smooth encrusting sheets.[2]
Species identity (nomenclature)
GBIF lists Axinella weltnerii as an accepted species name, originally published by (Lendenfeld, 1897).
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Axinellidae / Axinella / weltnerii constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Axinella weltnerii (Lendenfeld, 1897). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/7189188. Accessed 2026-07-09.