Porifera Animalia Flora and Fauna Biology

Article by William Amos on sponges and their general biology, and the pistol shrimp and other creatures that live inside their chambers.

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• The Sponges of British Columbia - Descriptions of sponges by Curt Smecher.
• Nonindigenous Aquatic Species: Sponges - Species list from the USGS on the nonindigenous flora and fauna porifera sponges found in US waters, with factsheets and flora and fauna porifera collection details.
• Hermit Crab Sponges - An article by Floyd Sandford about the sponges that are carried around by hermit crabs.
• Introduction to Porifera - A good start on the biology of sponges, animalia including phylogeny, life history, and ecology.
• Porifera List - Links to a number of sponge-related sites.
• Porifera - Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the sponges, including Leucosolenia, Sycon, Spongilla, Cliona and Euplectella, in detail.
• Sponge City - Article by William Amos on sponges and their flora and fauna animalia general biology, and the pistol shrimp and other flora and fauna animalia creatures that live inside their chambers.
• Halichondria bowerbanki - Photograph of this sponge and information including its identification, range and introduction into the US.
• Underwater Field Guide to Sponges of Ross Island and McMurdo Sound, Antarctica - Beautiful annotated photographs of sponges (Porifera) of Antarctica.
• Khoyatan Sponge Page - Sponges of The Northeast Pacific - Photographs of four Classes of sponges in the Khoyatan Marine flora and fauna Laboratory.
• Porifera Biology on the WWW - A central clearinghouse for sponge researchers, including a porifera listserver bulletin board and who\'s who in sponge research.
• Sponges of Northern California Fouling Communities - Gallery of photographs of a number of species.
• Phylum Porifera (Sponges) - Description of the sponges and their taxonomy, from animalia the Animal Diversity Web.

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