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Pinacocytes

Thin flat cells

Choanocytes

Collar cells

Spicules

Microscopic needle like spikes

Polyp

Usually asexual and sessile it attaches to a substrate at the a aboral end and has a cylindrical body called the colum

Psyfozoa

Common jelly fish

Cubozoa

Box jelly

Anthzoa

Sea anome

Starozoa

Stalk jelly fish

Looks like a goblet

Three body shapes of sponges

Ascon, xycon, leucon

Spong pores

Porifera

Monoecious

Have both male and female sex

Phaynx

Part of the canal right behind the mouth

Ostia

Sponge pores that water is pulled in