Amphimedon viridis

Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · species

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Animalia/Porifera/Demospongiae/Haplosclerida/Niphatidae/Amphimedon

At a glance

Occurrence records575

Data sources7

Biological traits7

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Amphimedon viridis's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility458 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System117 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 sources7 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS7 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS575 records

01Narrative

Amphimedon viridis 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 Amphimedon en behoort tot de familie Niphatidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1864 door Duchassaing & Michelotti.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology1

Body length3 cm

Habitat & environment3

Habitat brackishyes

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits3

Depth max14 m

Depth min1 m

Vulnerability10

03Chemical composition7 compounds

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

Compound class profile2 classes

Purine alkaloids5

pteridine alkaloids1

Documented compounds7 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
6-Imino-1,3-dimethyl-6,9-dihydro-1H-purin-2(3H)-one	present	LOTUS
HAYMZCLIRZJDNO-TWGQIWQCSA-N	present	NPASS
Theophylline	present	LOTUS
Thymine	present	LOTUS
XUQOUAIMZATHGP-BYPYZUCNSA-N	present	NPASS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type575 records

Wild obs. + sensor420

Museum / vouchered132

Cultivated / captive12

Other11

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO824 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit50

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 2.5 m · max 64 m · 50 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 accuracy87% within 1 km

≤100 m 82≤1 km 89≤10 km 10>10 km 16

197 georeferenced · 223 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor420

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 accuracy72% within 1 km

≤100 m 16≤1 km 7≤10 km 6>10 km 3

32 georeferenced · 100 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence132

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 12 records without

Open the mapnot free-living12

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 institutions5 of 14 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record	28
Washington, US	17
New Haven, US	9
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	9
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record	4
Universidad del Magdalena (UniMagdalena)location not on record	4
Cambridge, US	3
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Poza Rica-Tuxpanlocation not on record	3
CASlocation not on record	2
Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museumlocation not on record	1
Museums Victorialocation not on record	1
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	1
Auckland, NZ	1
Sydney, AU	1

14 institutions · 84 of 132 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

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