BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
KINGDOM ANIMALS
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mammals
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chordate
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cnidarians
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Porifera
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Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction to Phylum Porifera. The phylum Porifera comprises the sponges. Sponges are simple invertebrate animals that live in aquatic habitats.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sponges constitute the phylum Porifera, and have been defined as sessile metazoans (multicelled immobile animals) that have water intake and outlet openings connected by chambers lined with choanocytes, cells with whip-like flagella.
Detailed explanation-3: -Complete answer: This Sponges belongs to phylum porifera and this word porifera comes from the Latin word which means pores. The sponges have a porous body. The body has many inhalant pores called ostia, and secondary an exhalant pores called osculum.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three classes are: 1. Calcarea or Calcispongiae-(Calcareous Sponges) 2. Hexactinellida or Triaxonida or Hyalospongiae-(Glass Sponge) 3. Demospongiae.