sea sponges are primarily marine invertebrates of the metazoan phylum Porifera (/pəˈrɪfərəˌ pɔː-/ pər-IF-ər-ə, por-; meaning 'pore bearer'), a basal animal...

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

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

The animal kingdom is divided into five infrakingdoms/superphyla, namely Porifera, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Cnidaria and Bilateria. Most living animal species...

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

The siliceous sponges form a major clade of the phylum Porifera, consisting of classes Demospongiae (common sponges) and Hexactinellida (glass sponges)...

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...

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

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...

Porifera Genus / Taxon Phylum Higher taxon Abundance Notes Images To be determined Porifera To be determined 1 specimen (known as UWGM 3126) One specimen...

The Capitan Formation is a geologic formation found in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It is a fossilized reef dating to the Guadalupian Age...

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

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

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

Menshenina, Larisa L. (2002), "Family Hyalonematidae Gray, 1857", Systema Porifera, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 1232–1263, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_127...

The Tafraout Group (Full name: Assif Tafraout Group, also known as "Zaouiat Ahançal Group") is a geological group of formations of Toarcian-Aalenian (Lower...

This article lists the fauna of the Guanshan Biota. The Guanshan Biota is a collection of organisms from Cambrian China within the Wulongqing Formation...

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

Presence Notes Images Animalia: (incertae sedis) Cyclomedusa C. davidii ?Porifera: (incertae sedis) Palaeophragmodictya ?Dickinsoniidae: (incertae sedis)...

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...

The following is a list of the classes in each phylum of the kingdom Animalia. There are 107 classes of animals in 33 phyla in this list. However, different...

Porifera Genus Species Material Location Notes Images Endostoma E. spp. Spicules & Imprints Broccatello of Arzo A Calcareous sponge, member of the family...

animals are delineated according to the following cladogram: Animals: Porifera, Diploblasts Diploblasts: Ctenophora, ParaHoxozoa ParaHoxozoa: Placozoa...

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