Species Profile
Sycon
Scypha sponge
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPorifera
ClassCalcarea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Sycon lives in shallow marine waters.
It is sessile and filter-feeding.
Important for understanding sponge organization.
Size & Structure
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Small cylindrical body
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Central spongocoel
03
Numerous ostia
04
White in colour
Sycon — 3D Model
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 feeder
Cleans seawater
Part of marine benthos
Economic Importance
Teaching specimen
Research importance
Indicator of clean water