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Body structure of marine sponges

III. The structure of choanocyte chambers in Petrosia ficiformis (Porifera, Demospongiae)

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Each choanocyte chamber of Petrosia ficiformis is formed by a slightly outpocked choanocyte epithelium and by a ring of three or four uniflagellated cone cells surrounding the apopyle. The apopyle opens into a small aphodus, which leads the water flow to larger excurrent canals. Pinacocytes of the incurrent canal system cover the basal surface of the choanocytes and separate them from the incurrent canals and the mesenchyme. The water flows into the chambers by pores in the pinacocyte cover and then through gaps between adjacent choanocytes. To our knowledge this is the first report of a leuconoid canal system in which choanocyte chambers are covered by a pinacocyte epithelium of the incurrent canal system that isolates the chambers from the mesenchyme. A future comprehensive revision of the types of canal systems in sponges seems to be necessary.

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Langenbruch, PF., Simpson, T.L. & Scalera-Liaci, L. Body structure of marine sponges. Zoomorphology 105, 383–387 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312282

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