Porifera Flashcards

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Porifera

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Calcarea, Demospongiae(Euspongia and spongilla), Hexactinellida(Euplectella= glass sponge)
No true tissue
No mouth or tissue
Sessile

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Calcarea

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Calcareous spicules with 3 rays - No Spongin
Species = Grantia- Marine Syconoid, Asconoid, Leuconoid
Ostia, osculum, spicules, spongocoel, flagellated chambers, pinacoderm, choanocytes

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Asconoid

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Body plan
(Bigger cavity with only choanocytes)
Calcarea
Single Flagellate pumping cell

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Syconoid

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Body Plan
(Looks like there are tunnels)
Calcarea
Many flagellated canals

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Leuconoid

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Body plan
(Smaller cavity with circles inside)
Calcarea and all other classes
Many flagellated chambers connected by passive canals

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Ostia

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Small incurrent pores

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Osculum

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One large excurrent pore

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Spicules

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Skeletal - support and defense

calcium carbonate or hydrated silicon dioxide

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Spongocoel

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Fluid filled cavity via ostia

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Flagellated chambers

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Pumps water

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Pinacoderm

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Outer Layer

Pinacocyte- flat cells that form the outer body

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Choanocytes

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Single flagella and ring of microvilli

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Demospongiae

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Silica spicules many shapes 
Never 6 rays 
Leuconoid 
Euspongia 
Spongin fibers, gemmules
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Spongin Fibers

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Skeletal Flexibility

Demospongiae)(typical bath sponge

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Gemmules

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Freshwater sponge

dormant embryonic cells

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Hexactinellida

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Silica Spicules with 6 rays and no spongin

Collar bodies and flagella

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Difference between Hexactinellida and other sponges

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Single cell membrane with a bunch of nuclei with one cytoplasm

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Mesohyl

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Gelatinous matrix (skeletal support)

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Total Magnification

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Eyepiece x objective

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Spongin

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Tough elastic fibers of collagen