Axinyssa valida
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 valida
Species status and nomenclature
GBIF lists Axinyssa valida as an accepted species name, with authorship (Thiele, 1899) and the basionym Phycopsis valida Thiele, 1899. [2]
Visual Description
Based on museum specimen images used in the TreeOfLife-200M record set for this species, Axinyssa valida is represented as an encrusting to massive sponge form with a dark, compact external surface (typical of Halichondriidae specimens preserved in collections). [1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Suberitida / Halichondriidae / Axinyssa / valida constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Axinyssa valida (Thiele, 1899). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2250292. Accessed 2026-07-09.