What is the scientific name for a sea sponge?

Answer 1

There are thousands of different types of sponges, so there's not enough room to list them all. Here's a great website showing several hundred different sponges found in the Caribbean so you can get some idea of the different groups they fall into.

Answer 2

Sea sponges are in the phylum Porifera. More than 80% belong to the class Demospongiae. Most of the remainder are the calcareous sponges, Calcarea. The genus Hexactinellida (glass sponges) is sometimes considered a separate phylum, Symplasma.

Answer 3

There are the Hexactinellida (which are glass sponges), the Demospongia, and the Calcarea (which are calcareous sponges)

Answer 4

poriferans. They are great and interesting creatures. They do not move and they are invertebrates (no spinal chord).

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure it is Tehya something. Sorry

Answer 6

The scientific name for sea sponge is Porifera.

Answer 7

Phylum Porifera

Answer 8

Euplectella aspergillum

Answer 9

Xestospongia testudinaria

Answer 10

Porifera