Phyla of Animalia
  • Home
  • Porifera
    • Classes
    • Body Plan
    • Cell Types
    • Important Terms
  • Cnidaria
    • Classes
    • General Characteristics
    • Important Terms
  • Ctenophora
  • Platyhelminthes
    • General Characteristics
    • Class Turbellaria
    • Class Monogenea
    • Class Trematoda
    • Class Cestoidea
    • Important Terms
  • Mollusca
    • General Characteristics
    • Class Gastropoda
    • Class Bivalvia
    • Class Cephalopoda
    • Other Classes of Mollusca
    • Important Terms
  • Annelida
    • General Characteristics
    • Class Polychaeta

Body Plans of Sponges

Ascon

  • choanocytes line spongocoel
    single osculum
  • simplest body plan.
Sycon

  • choanocytes lie in canals
  • single osculum
Leucon

  • most common
  • branched canal system with choanocytes lying in small chambers
  • multiple oscula
Picture
Taken from: http://yanuar66.blogspot.com/2012/03/kingdom-animalia.html
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