Amphilectus digitatus — The Life Data

Animalia/Porifera/Demospongiae/Poecilosclerida/Esperiopsidae/Amphilectus

At a glance

Occurrence records640

Data sources7

Biological traits4

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Amphilectus digitatus's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility193 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System447 records↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 sections

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

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS21 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS640 records

01Narrative

Amphilectus digitatus 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 Amphilectus en behoort tot de familie Esperiopsidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1870 door Miklucho-Maclay.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits2

Depth max291 m

Depth min9 m

03Chemical composition21 compounds

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

Compound class profile5 classes

Cholestane steroids8

Isoquinoline alkaloids $ Protoberberine alkaloids4

Cholestane steroids $ Ergostane steroids3

Cholestane steroids $ Stigmastane steroids2

Stigmastane steroids2

Documented compounds21 total

Compound	Amount	Source
(-)-Xylopinine	present	NPASS
(3S,8S,9S,10R,13R,14S,17R)-17-[(2R,5R)-5-hydroxy-6-methylhept-6-en-2-yl]-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol	present	LOTUS
2,9-Dimethoxy-5,8,13,13a-tetrahydro-6H-isoquino[3,2-a]isoquinoline-3,10-diol	present	NPASS
22-Dehydrocholesterol	present	LOTUS
24-Methylenecholesterol	present	LOTUS
24-nor-cholest-5,22E-dien-3beta-ol	present	LOTUS
27-nor-ergosta-5,22E-dien-3beta-ol	present	LOTUS
3beta-Hydroxy-24-norchol-5-en-23-al	present	LOTUS
beta-Sitosterol	present	LOTUS
Campestanol	present	LOTUS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type640 records

Wild obs. + sensor555

Museum / vouchered85

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 632 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit234

200–1000 m twilight195

1–4 km midnight3

>4 km abyssal0

median 182.4 m · max 1 116 m · 432 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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 16≤1 km 530≤10 km 2

548 georeferenced · 7 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor555

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

≤1 km 36

36 georeferenced · 49 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence85

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 institutions3 of 7 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Washington, US	18
Edmonton, CA	4
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	3
Victoria, CA	3
CASlocation not on record	3
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	1
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	1

7 institutions · 33 of 85 vouchered records shown · 22 without an institution code