Axinyssa ambrosia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Suberitida
- Family: Halichondriidae
- Genus: Axinyssa
- Species: Axinyssa ambrosia
Visual Description
Museum specimen images associated with GBIF records for Axinyssa ambrosia show a sponge that appears as an encrusting to low, irregularly lobate form on the substrate, with a generally matte surface. Specimens in the dataset vary in overall outline (from flatter growth to more protruding lobes), consistent with preserved-condition differences among samples.
Species status and taxonomic notes
Axinyssa ambrosia (de Laubenfels, 1936) is treated as a valid species within the Caribbean Axinyssa complex. A taxonomic revision of Caribbean Axinyssa recognized two valid species—A. ambrosia and Axinyssa yumae—after comparing field material and confirming that observed differences correspond to species-level variation rather than intraspecific morphotypes.
Distribution and occurrence
Axinyssa ambrosia is recorded in the Caribbean Sea in GBIF occurrence data and has museum specimens held by natural history collections.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Suberitida / Halichondriidae / Axinyssa / ambrosia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.