The pinacoderm is the outermost layer of body cells (pinacocytes) of organisms of the phylum Porifera (sponges), equivalent to the epidermis in other animals...

gelatinous matrix within a sponge. It fills the space between the external pinacoderm and the internal choanoderm. The mesohyl resembles a type of connective...

known as ostia. Covering the sponge is a layer of cells known as the pinacoderm, which is composed of pinacocytes. In a sponge, pinacocytes are a thin...

within bacteriocyte cells, and cyanobacteria or microalgae found below the pinacoderm cell layer where they are able to receive the highest amount of light...

but the epidermis may secrete a variety of surface coatings such as the pinacoderm of sponges, the gelatinous cuticle of cnidarians (polyps, sea anemones...

mesohyl, over which are applied epithelioid monolayers of cells, the outer pinacoderm and the inner choanoderm. Most aspects of sponge biology, including feeding...

lack true tissues. They have two cell layers: the pinacoderm and the choanocyte layer. The pinacoderm layer is the epidermal layer that consists of pinacocyte...

reticulum, characterized by tightly free tubes, and a pseudo-atrium with no pinacoderm. One species of Leucascus simplex with has tightly free tubes, a true...

found in demosponges; sponges have loosely bound-together skins called pinacoderms, which are only one cell thick, while the skins of chancellorids were...

calcium carbonate; sponges have loosely bound-together skins called pinacoderms, which are only one cell thick, while the skins of chancellorids were...

and are released as small adult sponges via localized breakdown of the pinacoderm. Acanthotetilla Burton, 1959 Amphitethya Lendenfeld, 1907 Antarctotetilla...

within bacteriocyte cells, and cyanobacteria or microalgae found below the pinacoderm cell layer where they are able to receive the highest amount of light...