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

Hermit Crab Sponges - http://www.public.coe.edu/departments/Biology/hermit.html
An article by Floyd Sandford about the sponges that are carried around by hermit crabs.

Introduction to Porifera - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/porifera.html
A good start on the biology of sponges, including phylogeny, life history, and ecology.

Khoyatan Sponge Page - Sponges of The Northeast Pacific - http://mareco.org/spongepage/index.htm
Photographs of four Classes of sponges in the Khoyatan Marine Laboratory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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