Hexactinellid
| Hexactinellid sponges Temporal range: Cambrian - Recent
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| "Hexactinellae" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 | |
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| Class: | Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870
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Hexactinellid sponges are sponges with a skeleton made of four- and/or six-pointed silaceous spicules, often referred to as glass sponges. They are usually classified along with other sponges, but some researchers consider them sufficiently distinct to deserve their own phylum, Symplasma.
Hexactinellid Media
Bolosoma stalked glass sponge
The glass sponge Euplectella.: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist. * Water flow* Main syncitium* Spicules* Choanosyncitium and collar bodies showing interior
Venus' flower basket, Euplectella aspergillum
Euplectella aspergillum
Staurocalyptus sp.
Various hexactinellid sponges.
Hexactinellid sponge on a xenophorid gastropod.
Pattersonia ulrichi Rauff, 1894; an Ordovician hexactinellid sponge from near Cincinnati, Ohio.
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