Study Cards For Lab #3 Quiz Flashcards
3 Classes of Phylum Porifera
Calcerea, Hexactinellida, Demospongiae
3 Forms Phylum Porifera
Asconoid, Syconoid, Leuconoid
Phylum Porifera Cell Types
Unique Feature: spicules
Phylum Porifera Symmetry
None or Radial
Phylum Porifera: Class Calcarea
Calcareous carbonate spicules
All three grades of structure are found in this class - asconoid, syconoid, leuconoid
Phylum Porifera: Class Calcarea: Asconoid Forms
Have a simple circular opening - the osculum, the exhaling current passes through this
Stage at which the more complex syconoid and leuconoid sponges pass during their development
Phylum Porifera: Class Calcarea: Syconoid Forms (Grantia)
Widespread throughout the holarctic
Common solitary form occurring in shallow, coastal water to a depth of about 200m
Reproduces asexually (budding from the base), or sexually
Look at picture of sponge morphology
page 34 in lab manual
Phylum Porifera: Class Hexactinellida - the glass sponges
The spicules of these sponges are siliceous and six-pointed or hexagon
In many the spicules are fused to form a glass like skeleton
Most species occur in deep or abyssal waters - rare specimens in invertebrate collections
Phylum Porifera: Class Hexactinellida - Example
Euplectella aspergillum - venus’s flower basket
Phylum Porifera: Class Demospngiae
Contains the largest number of parazoan species - includes marine sponges as well as a few fresh water forms
Skeleton may contain siliceous spicules and or spongin fibres
If siliceous spicules are present they are often monsoon and never hexagon
All species are leuconoid and irregular in shape
Phylum Porifera: Class Demospngiae : Family Spongillide
The only fresh water sponges
Found in lakes and streams - grows around twigs and stems of plants and covering rocks
Shape of sponge is variable depending on age, shape of substrate and water currents
Substrates growing in bright sunlight are greenish due to symbiotic, intracellular zoochlorellae
Preserved Specimens (Spongilla)
Sponge has a solid material
Usually several oscula
Prepared slides of gemmules (Spongilla)
Fresh water sponges are able to reproduce sexually - free motile larvae
Asexual reproduction can occur as well - gemmules are produced
Gemmules - spherical, tough dark brown covering, remain in the tissue of the dying sponge. Each contains a central mass of archaeocytes surrounded by spongin and spicules
Euspongia
Live in warm sub tropic seas - depths of 300m
Found in West Indian Islands, Australia, Indian Ocean
Large in size - harvested for commercial use
Reproduce sexually
Preserved dried specimens (Euspongia)
Difference in complexity between asconoid and complex leuconoid involves water canals and skeletal systems alone with infolding and branching of collar cell layer
Leuconoid is principal body plan for sponges - permits larger size and more efficient water circulation
Preserved specimens (Clione)
Often encrust the shells of marine bivalve molluscs
Play a role in the recycling of calcium carbonate in the marine environment
Prepared Slides (Spicules various species) refer to figure 2.4 on page 37
Spicules are siliceous (SiO2) or calcareous (CaCO3) elements whose composition, size, and shape are used to classify them
Spicules are separated into large megascleres and small microscleres
Megascleres - principal body framework
Microscleres - support the pinacodermal lining of the canal system (in high density toughen the body wall)
Cnidarians
Metazoans with radial symmetry and tentacles surrounding the mouth
Primarily marine and carnivorous
Body wall - 2 cell layers - outer epidermis and gastrodermis
Two morphological types - sessile polyps and motile medusa