Kingdom Animalia Phylum Porifera Rank Species Subclass Ceractinomorpha | Family Callyspongiidae Genus Callyspongia Order Haplosclerida | |
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Similar Callyspongia, Haplosclerida, Callyspongia crassa, Callyspongia vaginalis, Petrosia | ||
Callyspongia truncata is a demosponge species in the genus Callyspongia.
Callystatin A is a polyketide natural product from the leptomycin family of antibiotics. It was first isolated in 1997 from the marine sponge Callyspongia truncata which was collected from the Goto Islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan by the Kobayashi group.
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