Web Directory

» Halichondria bowerbanki
   Photograph of this sponge and information including its identification, range and introduction into the US.
   http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=1217

» Hermit Crab Sponges
   An article by Floyd Sandford about the sponges that are carried around by hermit crabs.
   http://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.
   http://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.
   http://mareco.org/spongepage/index.htm

» Nonindigenous Aquatic Species: Sponges
   Species list from the USGS on the nonindigenous sponges found in US waters, with factsheets and collection details.
   http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/SpeciesList.asp?Group=Sponges

» Phylum Porifera (Sponges)
   Description of the sponges and their taxonomy, from the Animal Diversity Web.
   http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/porifera.html

» Porifera
   Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the sponges, including Leucosolenia, Sycon, Spongilla, Cliona and Euplectella, in detail.
   http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/porifera.html

» Porifera Biology on the WWW
   A central clearinghouse for sponge researchers, including a porifera listserver bulletin board and who's who in sponge research.
   http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PORIFERA.html

» Porifera List
   Links to a number of sponge-related sites.
   http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=PORIFERA/

» Sponge City
   Article by William Amos on sponges and their general biology, and the pistol shrimp and other creatures that live inside their chambers.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug99/basponge.html

» Sponges of Northern California Fouling Communities
   Gallery of photographs of a number of species.
   http://convoluta.ucdavis.edu/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=fouling-sponges

» Sponges: Porifera
   Photographs and information on a number of species found around the coasts of Britain, provided by the Marine Life Information Network.
   http://www.marlin.ac.uk/phylumdetails.php?phylum=2369

» The Sponges of British Columbia
   Descriptions of sponges by Curt Smecher.
   http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/csmecher/sponge.htm

» Underwater Field Guide to Sponges of Ross Island and McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
   Beautiful annotated photographs of sponges (Porifera) of Antarctica.
   http://www.peterbrueggeman.com/nsf/fguide/porifera.html