sponge — spongeless, adj. spongelike, adj. spongingly, adv. /spunj/, n., v., sponged, sponging. n. 1. any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or… … Universalium
Walter Garstang — (February 9, 1868 February 23, 1949), a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, was a marine biologist and zoologist who was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae. His best known works on marine larvae were his … Wikipedia
Homoscleromorpha — Taxobox name = Homoscleromorpha image caption = Oscarella lobularis regnum = Animalia phylum = Porifera classis = Demospongiae subclassis = Homoscleromorpha subclassis authority = Bergquist, 1978 ordo = Homosclerophorida ordo authority = Dendy,… … Wikipedia