eukaryota | | Pleated tube or vase shape |
myocyte | | Channels leading to the interior through the mesohyl |
endoskeleton | | The cylindrical or conical collar surrounding a flagellum |
calcarea | | The tail-like structure that projects from the cell body and is used to move water through the sponge body |
animalia | | Female reproductive cell |
lophocyte | | In addition to or instead of sclerocytes, demosponges have "blank" that secrete a form of collagen that polymerizes into spongin |
archeaeocyte | | Silica spicules, never has spongin fibres |
collencyte | | Tube or vase shape |
spongin | | Male reproductive cell |
mesohyl | | Internal support structure |
ostia | | Means "little mouth" |
flagellum | | Green algae are this to some sponges |
syconoid | | Phylum |
porifera | | No spongin, may have an asconoid, syconoid or leuconoid body shape |
rhabdiferous | | Tubular cells which make up the pores of a sponge |
sclerocyte | | Domain |
hexactinellida | | Conduct signals and cause parts of the animal to contract |
demospongia | | The gelatinous matrix within a sponge |
osculum | | Another type of collagen-producing cell |
endosymbiont | | The single-layered skin over all the parts of the mesohyl not used by porocytes |
oocyte | | The process by which sclerocytes produce silica spicules |
spicule | | External skeleton |
exoskeleton | | Ameba-like cells that are totipotent |
choanocyte | | Secrete polysaccharides that also form part of the mesohyl |
biomineralisation | | Exaggerated syconoid shape |
grey cell | | Act as the immune system |
pinacocyte | | A type of collagen protein that forms some sponges fibrous skeleton |
porocyte | | Kingdom |
spongocyte | | Many species contain spongin fibres |
spermatocyte | | Secrete the mineralized spicules |
leuconoid | | Tiny spike-like structures |
asconoid | | Amoeba-like cells that move slowly through the mesohyl and secrete collagen fibres |