Sponges Phylum Porifera. SPONGES ARE STRANGE Only meet MINIMUM requirement for Kingdom Animalia –Multicellular, eukaryotic cells, heterotrophic, moves.
Sponges Phylum Porifera. Phylum Porifera – Pore Bearers Water flow Choanocyte Spicule Pore cell Pore Epidermal cell Archaeocyte Osculum Central cavity.
5 KINGDOM : ANIMALIA The Sponges. Kingdom Animalia(Metazoa) 1. Mesozoa 2. Parazoa 3. Eumetazoa.
SPONGES. Some basic sponge structure Asconoid LeuconoidSyconoid Increasing surface area for same volume.
EARLY PALEOZOIC LIFE Cambrian Explosion Evolution’s “big bang” lasted about 10 million years All principal animal phyla except Bryozoa appeared between.
