Asymmetrical -Spongiocoel

Phylum -Choanocyte
-Spicule
Phylum porifera?
-Osculum (Exit of water)
-sponges
-reef building
-Siliceous spicules
-porus + fera
-Spongin
-Central cavity - osculum
-Calceus
-filter feeders
-no tissues/no organ
Classification of Porifera
Phylum Porifera
Tree of Life
Class Calcarea (Leucosolemia)
-Ancestral protist
Class Hexactinellida
-porifera > choanoflagellates (Euplectella)
(protist)
Class Demospongiae (Spongilla)

hypothesis accg to multicellarity

Water Currents and
-protist are solitary
Body Forms
-colonial -Water Current, brings food and
oxygen to a sponge
-two layered
-Increased surfaced area for
-bilateral/radial choanocytes results in large
volume of water (they have
great filtering capabilities).
-sponges are colonies of
independent cells
-diviion of labor Body form of Sponge
-ostium (entrance of water) -Ascon

-pinacoccyte -Sycon

-Mesohyll -Leucon

-Amoeboid cell
-Porocyte SPONGES:
-some are carnivorous (2) types of larvae
-no nerve cell -Parenchymula larvae
-reproduction (monoecious) -Amphiblastula larvae
-non-self fertilizing
-Choanocytes forms collar and
eggs
-Asexual thru gemules