Axos
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tethyida
- Family: Hemiasterellidae
- Genus: Axos
Visual Description
Museum specimens labeled to Axos (including Axos cliftoni) are typically preserved as encrusting to massive sponge bodies with a compact external surface. In the available images, the sponge tissue appears dark (brown to black in preservation) and irregularly textured, with a generally low profile rather than a delicate or filamentous form.
Taxonomic Notes
Axos is treated as an accepted genus within Hemiasterellidae (Demospongiae; order Tethyida) by GBIF.[2]
Species / Data Availability
Occurrence and specimen records for Axos in GBIF include material attributed to Axos cliftoni as well as generic records labeled simply Axos.[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tethyida / Hemiasterellidae / Axos constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Axos Gray, 1867. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2241684. Accessed 2026-07-09.