Phylum Porifera Characteristics, Habitat & Examples

porifera  Zoology 250 Clades for Phylum PORIFERA Revised clade from Tree of Life for Kingdom Animalia PHYLUM PORIFERA They can inhabit all marine and freshwater areas, stretching from the poles to the equator Approximately 4 out of 5 Porifera species live in shallow marine

The simplest of all the invertebrates are the Parazoans, which include only the phylum Porifera Phylum Porifera (“pori” = pores, “fera” = They are in the Phylum Porifera and there are about 5,000 different known species They are one of the simplest forms of multi-cellular animals

1 Phylum Porifera 2 Phylun Coelenterata 3 Platyhelminthes 4 Nematoda 5 Phylum Annelida 6 Phylum Mollusca  Systema Porifera is unique making sponge taxonomy widely available at the practical level of classification It is a taxonomic