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Sea and Sky's Sponges page 1 contains information about the tube sponge, vase sponge, yellow sponge, red tree sponge, and common sea squirt. ... Though extremely plant-like in appearance, sponges are actually one of the most primitive animals in the sea. They belong to a group called porifera. Most of us are familiar with...
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www.seasky.org/reeflife/sea2a.html
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A good start on the biology of sponges, including phylogeny, life history, and ecology. ... Poriferans are commonly referred to as sponges. An early branching event in the history of animals separated the sponges from other metazoans. As one would expect based on their phylogenetic position, fossil sponges are among the...
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/porifera.html
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Description of the sponges and their taxonomy, from the Animal Diversity Web. ... Sponges are a diverse group of sometimes common types, with about 5000 species known across the world. Sponges are primarily marine, but around 150 species live in fresh water.
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/informatio...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Porifera.html
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WHAT WE DO: ... •Create educational materials for use in the classroom ... Looking for sponges? The page moved here!;
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www.oceanicresearch.org/sponges.html
www.oceanicresearch.org/sponges.html
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Look back a few, maybe a decade ago, and you’d find very few people keeping live Sponges. For those attempting this "holy grail", they either couldn’t get healthy specimens or didn’t know how to keep them alive.
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www.wetwebmedia.com/sponges.htm
www.wetwebmedia.com/sponges.htm
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Sponge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera (pronounced /pɒˈrɪfərə/ ). Their bodies consist of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. While all animals have unspeciali...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge
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Ocean Animal Directory with 1000's of links to sea life resources including porifera (sponges), crustaceans, mollusks, marine mammals, and much more.. ... Ancient Life- Sponges Common fossils of Kansas...
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www.floridasmart.com/subjects/ocean/animals_ocean_spong...
www.floridasmart.com/subjects/ocean/animals_ocean_sponges.htm
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This page covers sponges. It discusses their appearance, body morphology, living habitats, feeding habits, reproductive systems and taxonomic classification. ... Sponges have thrived from their origination in the Precambrian through to today. They have changed little in the past 600 Million years, and are found throughout...
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www.bbm.me.uk/portsdown/PH_321_Sponge.htm
www.bbm.me.uk/portsdown/PH_321_Sponge.htm
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