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Hermit Crab Sponges - An article by Floyd Sandford about the sponges that are carried around by hermit crabs.
www.public.coe.edu/departments/Biology/hermit.html
Introduction to Porifera - A good start on the biology of sponges, including phylogeny, life history, and ecology.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/porifera.html
Khoyatan Sponge Page - Sponges of The Northeast Pacific - Photographs of four Classes of sponges in the Khoyatan Marine Laboratory.
mareco.org/spongepage/index.htm
Phylum Porifera (Sponges) - Description of the sponges and their taxonomy, from the Animal Diversity Web.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/porifera.html
Phylum Porifera - Pore-bearing animals - Description of the phylum, including descriptions of its constituent taxonomic classes, with photos of a few representative species.
www.teaching-biomed.man.ac.uk/bs1999/bs146/biodiversity/porifera.htm
Porifera Biology on the WWW - A central clearinghouse for sponge researchers, including a porifera listserver bulletin board and who's who in sponge research.
www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/porifera/files
The Sponges of British Columbia - Descriptions of sponges by Curt Smecher.
www.interchg.ubc.ca/csmecher/sponge.htm
Underwater Field Guide to Sponges of Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica - Beautiful annotated photographs of sponges (Porifera) of Antarctica.
scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/porifera.html