How To Use Porifera In A Sentence
- In fact, there are so many species of beetles that there are more species of beetles than the total number of species currently living in the Phyla Echinodermata, Mollusca, Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Cnidaria, and Porifera combined! Species richness
- This pattern is typical of most Porifera, Cnidaria, Bryozoa with coronate larvae, colonial Ascidiacea and many polychaetes.
- Won regarded the hollow canal structure as one of the indicators of the close relationship of radiolarians and the Porifera.
- In that time, the first undoubted fossil annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, echinoderms, molluscs, onychophorans, poriferans, and priapulids show up in rocks all over the world.
- Between 1859 and 1866, he worked on many ‘invertebrate’ groups, including radiolarians, poriferans and annelids (segmented worms).
- If collar cells and spicules are defining characteristics of the Phylum Porifera, then nematocysts define cnidarians.
- Thus, poriferan spicules and chancelloriid sclerites do not appear homologous.
- Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals Teach the Controversy
- First of all, however, spongin is not a feature consistent of all Porifera, but may be a constituent character of the Demospongiae only.
- The first seems to have occurred before the split between poriferans and the other metazoans.