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Sponges in hand Zanzibar, February 2019

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal Metazoa animal clade as a sister of the Diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. The branch of zoology that studies sponges is known as spongiology.

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