Axinyssa mertoni
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 mertoni
Visual Description
Specimen images available for Axinyssa mertoni (museum-preserved material) show sponge habit typically represented as an encrusting or massive form with a rough, irregular surface texture typical of demosponges (order Suberitida).
Nomenclature and Status
GBIF lists Axinyssa mertoni (Hentschel, 1912) as an accepted species name, with the basionym Ciocalypta mertoni Hentschel, 1912.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Suberitida / Halichondriidae / Axinyssa / mertoni constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.