 Buy
Books on Marine Invertebrates
Introduction to the Porifera. Museum of Paleontology, University
of California at Berkeley. An excellent introduction to the sponges with
information on biology, life history, morphology, systematics, and the
fossil record.
Porifera
Specimen Database. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Photographs
and information on several species of sponges found in the Woods Hole
region of Massachusetts.
Keys
to Marine Invertebrates of the Woods Hole Region. Marine Biological
Laboratory. An indentification key to the sponges of the Woods Hole region
of Massachusetts, with a glossary to terms, a list of references, and
a checklist of the species of the region.
Porifera
Web Page. Bernard Picton. This Irish site contains a guide to the
sponges, although the site is still incomplete.
Porifera
- Biology 404L. Donald Duszynski. An introduction to the sponges with
several photographs of species found in the Gulf of California.
Animal
Diversity Web. Natural History Museum, University of Michigan. An
introduction to the sponges, but without viewable pictures.
Tree
of Life - Porifera. A phylogeny of the major groups of the Porifera
with a couple of photographs.
About
Sponges. Mote Marine Laboratory. A simple introduction to the sponges.
Sponges
of British Columbia. Curt Smecher. A phylogeny and detailed descriptions
of the sponges of British Columbia. This site also has information on
collecting and preparing specimens. No photographs.
Hermit
Crab Sponges. Information and a couple of photographs of sponges living
on the sea shells of hermit crabs.
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