Sponges Domain Kingdom And Phylum
Sponges of the genus spongilla attach themselves to rocks and logs and filter the water for various small aquatic organisms such as protozoans bacteria and other free floating pond life.
Sponges domain kingdom and phylum. Phylogenetically the sponges phylum porifera are the simplest of animals. Glass sponges belong to the animalia kingdom the porifera phylum and the hexactinellida class. They are multicellular and composed of specialized cells arranged in a single layer for the maintenance of life processes.
A phylum is a taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class five ranks above species. Sea sponges also belong to the oopsascas minuta species. However a few carnivorous sponges have lost these water flow systems and the choanocytes.
Porifera contain three main lower classes hexactinellida glass sponges calcarea calcareous sponges having spicules demospongiae demosponges and scleropongiae coralline or tropical reef sponges. From wikipedia the free encyclopedia spongilla is a genus of freshwater sponges in the family spongillidae found in lakes and slow streams.