Axoniderma kensmithi
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Cladorhizidae
- Genus: Axoniderma
- Species: Axoniderma kensmithi
Visual Description
A single imagery record is available for Axoniderma kensmithi in the TreeOfLife-200M–derived dataset (sourced from FathomNet).[1]
Species status and nomenclature
GBIF lists Axoniderma kensmithi (originally described as Cladorhiza kensmithi) as an accepted species name, with authorship attributed to (Lunsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2017).[2]
Morphological notes (diagnostic characters within Cladorhizidae)
In comparative taxonomic treatment of Western Australian carnivorous sponges (Cladorhizidae), Axoniderma kensmithi is included among Axoniderma taxa with a similar overall morphological shape to other regional species.[3]
The same study emphasizes that lure/disc structures and differences in filament/process arrangement are useful for distinguishing morphologically similar Axoniderma species, and reports that A. kensmithi has “two to four disc-like lures.”[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Axoniderma / kensmithi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Axoniderma kensmithi (Lunsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2017). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/11164015. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 Merrick Ekins; Nerida G. Wilson. New carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from Western Australia, collected by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Scientific Reports. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-72917-8.