Glass rope sponge
Venus flower basket
Boring sponge
Commercial bath sponge
B. Venus flower basket
corals
sponges
sea urchin
sea horse
parenchyma
alanula
redia
amphib las tula
choanocytes
porocytes
pinacocytes
amoebocytes
pinacocyte � choanocyte � osculum
osculum > spongocoel � ostia
ostia > spongocoel � osculum
osculum � ostia > spongocoel
Radial canal
Inhalant canal
Spongocoel
None of these
admit water current
pass out water current
ingest food
excrete waste products
Glass rope sponge
Venus flower basket
Boring sponge
Commercial bath sponge
Planula
Stomogastrula
Amphiblastula
Terogastrula
Robert Grant
Trembly
Robert Brown
Ellias
water vascular system
canal system
feeding current
circulating current
One mouth and innumerable exits
Mouth serves for both, ingestion and egestion
Innumerable mouths and one exit
The body encloses a single cavity the coeienteron
ostea
gastral cavity
gut
gullet
asconoid
syconoid
leuconoid
rhagon
vaselike globular body
a central cavity
radial symmetry
choanocyts
trophocytes
thesocytes
desmocytes
archeocytes
cells
cell organisation
cell division
division of labour
Leucosolenia
Sycon
Euspnongia
Grautia
calcarea
porifera
hexactinellida
demospongia
protozoans
flagellates
choano flagellate
ciliates
on the external body surface
line the gastric cavity
located between the outer and inner layers
in the mesodermal layer
Cliona
Hyalonema
Chalina
Euspongia
gemmulation
gemmation
regeneration
amphimixis
free living, solitary, marine
free living, fresh water, solitary
free living, colonial, marine
Solitary, colonial, fresh water
gemmules
spicules
spongin fibre
trychocysts
diploblastic organisation
coelenteron
canal system
coelom
cold water
sea water
sandy shore
brackish water
gemmules
spicules
spongin fibres
choanocytes
porifera
gatropoda
coelenterata
ctenophora
Hyalonema
Tethya
Euplectalla
Pheronetna
sporozoa
mastigophora
porifera
coelenterata