Acanthella cavernosa

Dendy, 1922 · species

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Animalia/Porifera/Demospongiae/Bubarida/Dictyonellidae/Acanthella

At a glance

Occurrence records910

Data sources7

Biological traits4

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Acanthella cavernosa's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility410 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System500 records↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS99 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS910 records

01Narrative

Acanthella cavernosa is een sponssoort in de taxonomische indeling van de gewone sponzen (Demospongiae). Het lichaam van de spons bestaat uit kiezelnaalden en sponginevezels, en is in staat om veel water op te nemen. De spons behoort tot het geslacht Acanthella en behoort tot de familie Dictyonellidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1922 door Dendy.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits2

Depth max20 m

Depth min10 m

03Chemical composition99 compounds

Compounds documented for Acanthella cavernosa across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Serrulatane and Biflorane diterpenoids42

Aromadendrane sesquiterpenoids11

Cholestane steroids6

Cadinane sesquiterpenoids5

Menthane monoterpenoids4

Documented compounds99 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(+)-alpha-Muurolene	present	LOTUS
(+)-Axisonitrile 3	present	LOTUS
(-)-Aristolene	present	LOTUS
(1aR,4R,4aR,7R,7aR,7bR)-4-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aR,4R,4aS,7R,7aR,7bR)-4-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aR,4S,4aS,7S,7aR,7bS)-4a-isocyano-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aS,4R,4aR,7S,7aR,7bR)-4-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aS,4S,4aR,7S,7aR,7bR)-4-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aS,4S,4aS,7S,7aR,7bR)-4-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aS,4S,4aS,7S,7aR,7bS)-4a-isocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type910 records

Wild obs. + sensor340

Museum / vouchered570

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 272 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit148

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 35.8 m · max 107 m · 148 records with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy96% within 1 km

≤100 m 124≤1 km 76≤10 km 7>10 km 1

208 georeferenced · 132 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor340

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 344≤1 km 75≤10 km 2

421 georeferenced · 149 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence570

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions2 of 8 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Natick, US	176
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record	43
CASlocation not on record	10
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	10
Auckland, NZ	10
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record	4
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	2
DEWlocation not on record	1

8 institutions · 256 of 570 vouchered records shown

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