Phylum - PORIFERA
Phylum- porifera
* ( paros - pore , ferre ~TO BEAR)
* Commonly called as " spongs ".
General characters
1 porifera are all aquatic, mostly marine few terrestrial .
2 The are. Sessile and sedentary & grow like plant.
3. BODY SHAPE : vase or cylinder like .
4 Symmetry: Asymmetrical or radial.
5 The body surface is perpforted .by numerous pores, the ostia through which water entous the body of one or more large opening .the oscula by which the water exist .
6 They consist of outer ectoderm & inner endoderm with an intermediate layer of ,mesenchyme ; therefore diploblastic
7 mouth - absent , Digestion ~ intracellular
8 Excautory & respiration organs are absent
9 contractile vacucles. Are present in some fresh water forms .
10 The sponges are monoecious .
Monoecious-‐》 present male and female reproductive system in (monoecious ) .
11 The nervous & sinsory cell are probably not differential.
12 Reproduction occurs by both sexual & asexual methods .
13 sexual Reproduction buds and gemmules.
14 sexual Reproduction ~ occurs via ova and sperms.
15 Regeneration: The spongs possis a high pour of Regeneration
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