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On the Web
- Introduction to Porifera - A good start on the biology of sponges, including phylogeny, life history, and ecology.
- Porifera Biology on the WWW - A central clearinghouse for sponge researchers, including a porifera listserver bulletin board and who's who in sponge research.
- Phylum Porifera (Sponges) - Description of the sponges and their taxonomy, from the Animal Diversity Web.
- Introduction to Porifera - A good start on the biology of sponges, including phylogeny, life history, and ecology.
- The Shape of Life: Porifera - Introduction to the phylum, including photographs, classification, and habitat.
- Cretaceous Sponges - Documentation and systematic description of fossil Cretaceous sponges (porifera) from the Campanian of Misburg and Höver, Germany.
- Khoyatan Sponge Page - Sponges of The Northeast Pacific - Photographs of four Classes of sponges in the Khoyatan Marine Laboratory.
- Cretaceous Sponges - Systematic description of Campanian porifera from Misburg and Höver, Germany.
- Hermit Crab Sponges - An article by Floyd Sandford about the sponges that are carried around by hermit crabs.
- The Sponges of British Columbia - Descriptions of sponges by Curt Smecher.
Wikipedia Articles
- Silicarea - Silicarea is a proposed new phylum based on molecular studies of the phylum Porifera. Some scientists believe that Porifera is polyphyletic/paraphyletic, and that some sponges, the Calcarea, are a separate phylum which was the first to diverge from the main line of kingdom Animalia.
- Polymastia (sponge) - Polymastia is a genus of sponges (Porifera). These are small to large encrusting or dome-shaped sponges with a smooth surface marked with many papillae.
- Suberites domuncula - Suberites domuncula is a sponge belonging to the Phylum Porifera.
- Spheciospongia vesparum - Spheciospongia vesparum is a sea sponge belonging to the Phylum Porifera.
- Tethya actinia - Tethya actinia is a sea sponge belonging to the Phylum Porifera.