Spheciospongia vagabunda
Vagabond sponge
Accession: OMN-MAR-0055
- Family
- Clionaidae
- Category
- Sponges
- Geographic origin
- Bandar Khayran, Muscat
- Sampling depth
- 22.4 m
- Collection date
- 2025-04-21
- Holding institution
- Marine Science Centre (Demo)
Overview
Scientific identity
All values on this page are synthetic demonstration data, generated for this prototype.
Taxonomy
Growth form
Massive, encrusting to lobate form.
Surface
Conulose, rough to touch
Colour in life
Grey-green
Resource network
This record
OMN-MAR-0055
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GIS & sampling
Sampling location & depth
Where this organism was collected, and at what depth in the water column.
Sampling depth explorer
22.4 m · this record
9.3 m
30.2 m
35.4 m
34 m
- Recorded depth
- 22.4 m
- Sampling method
- SCUBA survey
Schematic depth scale — no bathymetric profile is claimed. Other columns are recorded depths of the same species (demo).
Environment
Water conditions at sampling
Single set of measurements recorded during the sampling event on 2025-04-21 — not a monitoring series.
Water temperature
24.4 °C
Recorded at sampling · Bandar Khayran, Muscat
Sampling depth 22.4 m · SCUBA survey
Values are synthetic demonstration measurements with realistic units; no time series exists to chart.
Biochemistry
Extract & compound explorer
Select an extract to see its fractions and any assay results. All entries are synthetic demonstration data — no bioactivity is claimed.
Isolated fractions · EXT-0055-M
Polar fraction from liquid–liquid partitioning. Structural elucidation pending — no formula or structure is claimed.
Bioactivity assays
Antibacterial screening (disk diffusion)
ASY-0055-1Target: Reference bacterial panel
No inhibition zone recorded
Negative result at tested concentration (demo). No bioactivity is claimed.
No chromatograms or spectra are held for these extracts, so none are drawn. Compound identities, formulas and structures remain unclaimed until characterization is complete.
Genomics
Genomic data
DNA barcodes and sequence records linked to this specimen. Sequences are synthetic demonstration output, not real results.
Molecular markers
Sequenced (demo)- Marker
- Cytochrome c oxidase I (DNA barcode)
- Type
- Mitochondrial barcode
- Sequence ID
- OMN-MAR-0055_COI
- Length
- 658 bp
Synthetic demonstration sequence — not a real sequencing result.
Sequence viewer · COI
Biobank
Physical sample preservation
Registered material from this specimen and how it is preserved. Exact freezer positions and rack locations are restricted to authorized staff.
Preserved samples
2
−80 °C / LN₂
1
Holding laboratories
1
Available
2
Ethanol-preserved specimen
SPC-M-0055
- Preservation
- Ethanol, room temperature
- Quantity
- 3 items
- Preserved
- 2025-05-09
Marine Science Centre — Wet Lab (Demo)
Frozen tissue for DNA
TIS-M-0055
- Preservation
- Liquid nitrogen
- Quantity
- 3 tubes
- Preserved
- 2025-06-10
Marine Science Centre — Wet Lab (Demo)
Sample lifecycle
2025-04-21 · Field sampling — Bandar Khayran, Muscat — collected at 22.4 m.
2025-05-09 · Registration — Registered at Marine Science Centre (Demo) as OMN-MAR-0055.
2025-05-09 · Preservation — Material preserved: Ethanol, room temperature · Liquid nitrogen.
2025-06-10 · Molecular work — DNA extraction and barcoding (demo).
Sample identifiers, quantities and laboratories are synthetic demonstration values; no storage monitoring history is claimed.
Research
Research & provenance
How this record came to be, and literature linked to it.
Data provenance
Sampling event
Bandar Khayran, 2025-04-21 · 22.4 m · by A. Al-Harthy
Curated record
Marine Science Centre (Demo)
Preserved material
2 samples across 1 laboratories (demo)
Research data
DNA barcoding (demo) · Biochemical extracts (demo)
No publications linked
Publications citing this specimen will appear here once they are added by the holding institution.
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