porifera
Across
- 2. (singular ostium) any spores through which water enters the body
- 3. mobile cell in body of invertebrates
- 5. a slender pointed usually hard body
- 6. a small bud
- 9. attached by the base
- 10. one of the large tubular cells that constitute the walls of incurrent canals
- 12. type of sponge in an oval shape with a thin body wall
- 14. sponge larva having complex structure in flagellated layer
Down
- 1. flagellated cells in sponge that maintain water
- 4. (Mesenchyme) gelatinous matrix within a sponge
- 7. (Pinacocyte) waxy cuticle provides protective barrier
- 8. a scleroprotein that is the chief of flexible fibers found in certain skeletons
- 11. sponges belonging to family sycttidae
- 13. excretory structure in the living sponge