Species Profile
Grantia
Grant’s sponge
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPorifera
ClassCalcarea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Grantia lives attached to rocks.
Sessile and filter-feeding.
Commonly studied in zoology.
Size & Structure
01
Vase-shaped body
02
Thick folded wall
03
Central osculum
04
White colour
Grantia — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Cell aggregate body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic (cellular grade)
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Asymmetrical
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Intracellular
- Nervous system
- Absent
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Water canal system
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (calcareous spicules)
- Level of Organisation
- Cellular level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Filter feeding
Nutrient cycling
Marine ecosystem role
Economic Importance
Zoology practical specimen
Educational importance
Research use