Acanthella pulcherrima

Ridley & Dendy, 1886 · species

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Animalia/Porifera/Demospongiae/Bubarida/Dictyonellidae/Acanthella

At a glance

Occurrence records218

Data sources8

Biological traits5

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

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

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility87 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System131 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources5 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS14 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS218 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Acanthella pulcherrima 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 1886 door Ridley & Dendy.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology1

Body length12 cm

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits2

Depth max100 m

Depth min0 m

03Chemical composition14 compounds

Compounds documented for Acanthella pulcherrima 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 diterpenoids9

Aromadendrane sesquiterpenoids2

Aromadendrane sesquiterpenoids $ Cycloeudesmane sesquiterpenoids1

Eudesmane sesquiterpenoids1

Cadinane sesquiterpenoids1

Documented compounds14 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(1aR,4R,4aS,7R,7aS,7bS)-4-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4a,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1aS,3aR,7R,7aR,7bS)-7-isothiocyanato-1,1,3a,7-tetramethyl-1a,2,3,4,5,6,7a,7b-octahydrocyclopropa[a]naphthalene	present	LOTUS
(1aS,4R,4aR,7S,7aR,7bS)-4a-isothiocyanato-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-2,3,4,5,6,7,7a,7b-octahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[e]azulene	present	LOTUS
(1R,2R,4aS,8S,8aS)-1-isocyano-8-[(2R,5S)-5-(2-isocyanopropan-2-yl)-2-methyloxolan-2-yl]-2-methyl-5-methylidene-1,3,4,4a,6,7,8,8a-octahydronaphthalen-2-ol	present	LOTUS
(1R,2R,4aS,8S,8aS)-8-[(2R,5S)-5-(2-isocyanopropan-2-yl)-2-methyloxolan-2-yl]-1-isothiocyanato-2-methyl-5-methylidene-1,3,4,4a,6,7,8,8a-octahydronaphthalen-2-ol	present	LOTUS
(1R,2R,5S)-8-[(2R)-5-(1-chloro-1-methyl-ethyl)-2-methyl-tetrahydrofuran-2-yl]-2,5-dimethyl-1,5-bis(methylidyne-$l^{5}-azanyl)decalin-2-ol	present	LOTUS
(4aalpha,8abeta)-8beta-[(2,6,6-Trimethyl-5beta-chlorotetrahydro-2H-pyran)-2alpha-yl]-1alpha,5alpha-diisocyano-2,5-dimethyldecahydronaphthalen-2beta-ol	present	LOTUS
1,5-Diisocyano-2,5-dimethyl-8-(2-methyl-5-prop-1-en-2-yloxolan-2-yl)-1,3,4,4a,6,7,8,8a-octahydronaphthalen-2-ol	present	LOTUS
1-isothiocyanato [C16H25NS]	present	LOTUS
11-Isothiocyano-7bH-eudesm-5-ene [C16H25NS]	present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Acanthella pulcherrima has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★ITS1

fungal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type218 records

Wild obs. + sensor40

Museum / vouchered168

Other10

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO272 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit18

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 24 m · max 101.2 m · 18 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 accuracy85% within 1 km

≤100 m 16≤1 km 1>10 km 3

20 georeferenced · 20 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor40

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 accuracy97% within 1 km

≤100 m 21≤1 km 50≤10 km 2

73 georeferenced · 95 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence168

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 5 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record	34
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record	11
Natick, US	10
Sydney, AU	2
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	1

5 institutions · 58 of 168 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Acanthella pulcherrima was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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