subkingdom PARAZOA
(especially phylum PORIFERA)

MATERIAL AVAILABLE

Preserved material (including microscope slides)

(arranged taxonomically)

The following abbreviations and symbols are used in the lists below:

kingdom  Animalia (= Metazoa)

subkingdom  Parazoa

phylum Porifera

General sponge material

sponge-bored snail-shell -- {RAD un #}

sponge spicules (micro-slide) -- {RAD 5}

commercial sponge fibers (5 micro-slides) -- {MSJ un #}

miscellaneous dried skeletons -- {MSJ un #}

gemmules

gemmules, w.m. (1 micro-slide) -- {MSJ}

Spongilla gemmules, w.m. (5 micro-slides) -- {MSJ}

sponge eggs

Scypha w/ eggs (3 micro-slides) -- {MSJ}

Class: Calcispongea  (= Calcarea; = Calcispongiae)

Grantia (= Scypha, = Sycon)

2 "biomounts" -- {MSJ un #}

"pickled" specimens (vials) -- {MSJ un #}

whole-mounts (2 micro-slides) -- {MSJ un #}

cross-sections (5 micro-slides) -- {MSJ un #}

choanocytes, c.s. (2 micro-slides) -- {MSJ un #}

embryo (4 micro-slides) ----- {MSJ un #}

spicules (2 micro-slides) ----- {MSJ un #}

spicules, c.s. (1 micro-slides) ----- {MSJ un #}

Leucandra

L. sp., trans. sec. (micro-slide) -- {RAD 2}

Leucosolenia

biomount" -- {MSJ un #}

"pickled" specimens (2 vials, 1 jar) -- {MSJ un #}

dried specimens ( 1 vial)-- {MSJ un #}

Leucosolenia, whole-mounts (6 micro-slides) -- {MSJ un #}

Class:  Hyalospongea  (= Hexactinellida; = Hyalospongiae)

Astraeospongium +

A. sp. -- {RAD 53}

Euplectella

Euplectella aspergillum, skeleton -- {MSJ un #}

Hyalonema

H. sieboldii, skeleton -- {MSJ un #}

Hydnoceras +

H. sp. -- {RAD 44}

Class:  Demospongea  (= Demospongiae)

"commercial sponge dried" (1 jar) -- {MSJ}

Astylospongia +

? A. sp. -- {RAD 45}

Caryomanon +

C. incisilobatum -- {RAD 50}

Chalina sp. -- {RAD 52}

Euspongia (1 jar of ten pieces) -- {MSJ}

Hindia (= Microspongia) +

H. sphaeroidalis -- {RAD 51}

Palaeomanon +

? P. sp. -- {RAD 46}

Spongia

Spongia sp.

Class:  Sclerospongea  (= Sclerospongiae)

        Order:  Stromatoporoidea

(Some folks argue that the stromatoporoids are extinct; others argue that the present-day sclerosponges are their descendants and, thus, that the Stromatoporoidea is still extant.)

                        Beatricia +

                                    B. undulata -- {RAD 49}

                        Stromatopora +

                                    S. barretti, tang. sec. -- {RAD 12}

                                    S. constellata, vert. sec. -- {RAD 8, RAD 9}

                                    ? S. sp. -- {RAD 47, RAD 48}

                        Stromatoporella +

                                    S. sp., spec. + tang. sec. -- {RAD 6}

                        Syringostroma +

                                    S. foveolatum, tang. sec. -- {RAD 10}

                                    S. ristigouchense, long. sec. -- {RAD 11}

kingdom  Animalia (= Metazoa)

subkingdom  Parazoa

Phylum:  Archaeocyatha