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  2. Spongia officinalis - Wikipedia

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    Spongia officinalis, better known as a variety of bath sponge, is a commercially used sea sponge. [2] Individuals grow in large lobes with small openings and are formed by a mesh of primary and secondary fibers. [3] [2] It is light grey to black in color. [3] It is found throughout the Mediterranean Sea up to 100 meters deep on rocky or sandy ...

  3. Hippospongia communis - Wikipedia

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    Hippospongia communis also known as the honeycomb bath sponge, is a marine sponge in the phylum Porifera. Hippospongia communis is a brown or darker color [1] and very porous, due to its many oscules, and is commonly found in shallow waters of the Mediterranean. Throughout history, H. communis has been used for cleaning, medicine, and cooking ...

  4. Sponge - Wikipedia

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    The phylum Porifera is further divided into classes mainly according to the composition of their skeletons: [17] [29] Hexactinellida (glass sponges) have silicate spicules, the largest of which have six rays and may be individual or fused. [17] The main components of their bodies are syncytia in which large numbers of cell share a single ...

  5. Spongia - Wikipedia

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    Spongia is a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae, originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1759, containing more than 60 species. [1] Some species, including Spongia officinalis , are used as cleaning tools, but have mostly been replaced in that use by synthetic or plant material.

  6. Demosponge - Wikipedia

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    The carnivorous ping-pong tree sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus [3] [4] Monanchora arbuscula (Poecilosclerida) Geodia barretti (Tetractinellida) Chondrosia reniformis (Chondrosiida) Spongia officinalis (Dictyoceratida) Spongilla lacustris (Spongillida) Demosponges (Demospongiae) are the most diverse class in the phylum Porifera.

  7. Sponge spicule - Wikipedia

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    In 1833, Robert Edmond Grant grouped sponges into a phylum he called Porifera (from the Latin porus meaning "pore" and -fer meaning "bearing"). [17] He described sponges as the simplest of multicellular animals, sessile, marine invertebrates built from soft, spongy (amorphously shaped) material.

  8. Aquaculture of sea sponges - Wikipedia

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    Bath sponges can be defined as any sponge species possessing only spongin fibers – which are springy fibres made from collagen protein. [7] Commercial uses for bath sponges range from cosmetic, bath, or industrial purposes, with the quality of the sponge based on analysing the quality of the sponge skeleton, with those possessing soft ...

  9. Spongilla lacustris - Wikipedia

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    Spongilla lacustris is part of the class demosponges of the phylum Porifera. The Porifera phylum contains all sponges which are characterized by the small pores on the outer layer, which take in water. The cells in the sponge walls filter food from the water. Whatever is not uptaken by the sponge is pumped through the body out of a large opening.

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