Summary
Specimens of Haliclona elegans (Bowerbank, 1866) are covered by a thin, double layered dermal membrane extending over large subdermal spaces. The pores in the dermal membrane are formed by single porocytes with one or sometimes several pores in the center of the cell. The subjacent tissue shows a faintly developed mesenchyme and numerous big choanocyte chambers projecting into lacunar spaces of the incurrent canal system. The outer surface of the chambers is directly covered by the pinacocyte epithelium of the incurrent canal wall, which also separates them completely from the mesenchyme. Water influx into the chambers is guaranteed by prosopylar openings in the pinacocyte cover at the outer chamber surface. The chambers are connected to the excurrent canal system in the eurypylous way by wide apopyles, each of which is surrounded by a small ring of flagellated cone cells. About 15% of the choanocyte chambers in H. elegans contain central cells, which are thought to derive from migrating pinacocytes of the canal systems.
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Langenbruch, PF., Scalera-Liaci, L. Body structure of marine sponges. Zoomorphology 106, 205–211 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312041
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