Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (/pəˈrɪfərə/; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the...

class in the phylum Porifera. They include greater than 90% of all species of sponges with nearly 8,800 species worldwide (World Porifera Database). They...

the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as sister of the Ctenophora. An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the...

Ctenopelta porifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Peltospiridae. The length of the shell attains 10.6 mm. It is a...

The calcareous sponges (class Calcarea) are members of the animal phylum Porifera, the cellular sponges. They are characterized by spicules made of calcium...

are only partially differentiated. They generally group a single phylum, Porifera, which lack muscles, nerves and internal organs, which in many cases resembles...

Ctenophora and Porifera is debated. Some phylogenomic studies have presented evidence supporting Ctenophora as the sister to Parahoxozoa and Porifera as the sister...

relationships is indicated with dashed lines. The most basal animals, the Porifera, Ctenophora, Cnidaria, and Placozoa, have body plans that lack bilateral...

and crustaceans. The most familiar invertebrates include the Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Echinodermata, Mollusca...

A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves. These...

reproduction, larval development and release in Spongia officinalis L.(Porifera, Demospongiae) from the Apulian coast." Marine Biology 152.4 (2007): 969-979...

Incertae sedis (Latin for 'of uncertain placement') or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or...

spicules without calcified non-spicular reinforcements. According to Systema Porifera (2002), Lucosolenida contains 9 families, ranging from fully asconoid forms...

variety of sizes and three dimensional shapes. Among the four sub-clades of Porifera, three (Demospongiae, Hexactinellida, and Homoscleromorpha) produce skeletons...

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E, Revised. Porifera, Volumes 4 & 5: Hypercalcified Porifera, Paleozoic Stromatoporoidea & Archaeocyatha, liii +...

albella rufilabrum Alder, 1844 · Rissoa lilacina porifera Rissoa lilacina rufilabrum Rissoa porifera (Lovén, 1846) Rissoa punctata Potiez & Michaud, 1838...

Non-larval animal juvenile (immature) stages and other life cycle stages: In Porifera: olynthus, gemmule In Cnidaria: ephyra, scyphistoma, strobila, gonangium...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sponge is an animal of the phylum Porifera. Sponge may also refer to: Sponge (band), an American rock band "Sponge"...

analysis suggests that Archaeocyatha is a clade nested within the phylum Porifera (better known as the true sponges). True archaeocyathans coexisted with...

of development Eumetazoa – Basal animal clade as a sister group of the Porifera Ravichandra (Jan 1, 2008). Plant Nematology. I. K. International Pvt Ltd...

sponges. They are usually classified along with other sponges in the phylum Porifera, but some researchers consider them sufficiently distinct to deserve their...

The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes for a specimen measuring 27.6 metres (91 ft), whereas...

(Albian–Cenomanian)] Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E, Revised. Porifera, Volume 3: Classes Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida & Calcarea...

 buckleyi Binomial name Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) Synonyms Hyla porifera Andersson, 1945 Phyllomedusa loris Boulenger, 1912 Hylomantis buckleyi...

constitute one of the five main metazoan lineages, the other four being Porifera (sponges), Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydrae, sea anemones and corals), Ctenophora...

Africa is a list of species that form a part of the poriferan (Phylum Porifera) fauna of South Africa. Taxonomy follows WoRMS. The list follows the SANBI...

Epitheliozoa or Histozoa, are a proposed basal animal clade as a sister group of Porifera (sponges). The basal eumetazoan clades are the Ctenophora and the ParaHoxozoa...

derived phyla, i.e. the bilaterians. The less-advanced taxa (i.e. Placozoa, Porifera, Ctenophora and Cnidaria) do not show consolidation of their tissues into...

1887". In Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Willenz, P. (eds.). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Boston, MA: Springer. pp. 1121–1140...

The New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary has a variety of flora and fauna. Much of the harbor originally consisted of tidal marshes that have been dramatically...