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Freshwater sponges

SPONGES

• No tissu
• They are mobile
• 98% are marine and 2% are freshwater
• When being made into cleaning sponges no chemicals added to make soft and squishy
• Can live by the surface of water and the bottom of the ocean

PORIFERA, KINGDOM ANIMALISTIC

• The phylum of sponges which are sessile, suspension - feeding, multicellular animals. They are probably an early evolutionary side branch that gave rise to no other groups of animals. Except for about 150 freshwater sponges are marine animals.

SPONGES

• Diversity of species ~8,000 species
• Phylum porifera
• From Greek “passage” or “pore”
• Sponges have tiny openings all over their body = Poer - bearers
• Most sponges are MARINE, some live in freshwater

SPECIES OF SPONGES

• Eyed finger sponge
• Barrel sponge
• Stove - pipe sponge
• Yellow boring sponge
• Bath sponge
• Carteriospongia foliascens
• Carnivorous sponge
• Freshwater sponge

And that’s all