Animalia > Porifera > Demospongiae > Suberitida > Suberitidae > Aaptos > Aaptos aaptos

Aaptos aaptos (Sponge)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Aaptos aaptos is a sea sponge belonging to the phylum Porifera. This particular species is known to contain adrenoreceptor-blocking compounds. While it is highly toxic to fish, it is known to be preyed upon by the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.
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Infraspecies

Aaptos aaptos var. aaptos
Aaptos aaptos var. nigra

Predators

Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill)[1]
Holacanthus passer (whitestripe angelfish)[2]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Spongivory in Hawksbill Turtles: A Diet of Glass, Anne Meylan, Science, New Series, Vol. 239, No. 4838 (Jan. 22, 1988), pp. 393-395
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0