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    • Porifera
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    • sponges

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Azure Vase Sponge Callyspongia plicifera

Observer

sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Dive site Oil Slick Leap.

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sponges Phylum Porifera

Observer

maureen2

Date

May 12, 2012 09:05 AM PDT

Description

Low tide Weston Beach under rocks

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What

Stovepipe Sponge Aplysina archeri

Observer

sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Witches' Hut dive site, evening/night.

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Description from Wikipedia

Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera (pronounced /pɒˈrɪfərə/). Their bodies consist of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. While all animals have unspecialized cells that can transform into specialized cells, sponges are unique in having some specialized cells that can transform into other types, often migrating between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead most rely on maintaining a...

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