Porifera {phylum}

Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera (pron.: /pɒˈrɪfərə/; meaning "pore bearer"). They are multicellular organisms which have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-likemesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and which often migrate 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 constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	16,619	Public Records:	10,794
Specimens with Sequences:	13,702	Public Species:	2,010
Specimens with Barcodes:	8,594	Public BINs:	923
Species:	2,336
Species With Barcodes:	1,746
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