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Venus' Flower Basket (Euplectella aspergillum)
[Public Domain]
Chapter Outline
- Description of Metazoa
- Classification of Metazoa
- Porifera (Sponges)
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Porifera is the phylum of sponges. It contains three classes: Calcarea, Demospongiae and Hexactinellida
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- SUBCLASS CALCARONEA
- ORDER BAERIDA
- ORDER LEUCOSOLENIDA
- ORDER LITHONIDA
- SUBCLASS CALCINEA
- ORDER CLATHRINIDA
- ORDER MURRAYONIDA
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- SUBCLASS CERACTINOMORPHA
- ORDER AGELASIDA
- Pipes-Of-Pan Sponge (Agelas sp.)
- ORDER DENDROCERATIDA
- ORDER DICTYOCERATIDA
- ORDER HALICHONDRIDA
- ORDER HAPLOSCLERIDA
- Azure Vase Sponge (Callyspongia plicifera) -
NOAH
- Niphates erecta -
NOAH
- ORDER POECILOSCLERIDA
- Red Volcano Sponge (Acarnus erithacus)
- Strawberry Sponge (Mycale)
- ORDER VERONGIDA
- Yellow Tube Sponge (Aplysina fistularis) -
NOAH
- SUBCLASS HOMOSCLEROMORPHA
- SUBCLASS TETRACTINOMORPHA
- ORDER ASTROPHORIDA
- ORDER HADROMERIDA
- Orange Puffball Sponge (Tethya aurantia)
- ORDER LITHISTIDA
- ORDER SPIROPHORIDA
- Orange Ball Sponge (Cinachyrella alloclada) -
NOAH - Florida Aquarium
- ORDER CHORISTIDA
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- SUBCLASS AMPHIDISCOPHORA
- SUBCLASS HEXASTEROPHORA
- ORDER HEXACTINOSIDA
- ORDER LYSSACINOSIDA
- Venus's Flower Basket (Euplectella aspergillum)
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