What are facts about glass sponges?

Answer 1

Yellow tube sponge/Sulphur sponge

Aplysina fistularis

Yellow tube sponges get their name from their hollow, chimney-like body form. They pump huge quantities of water through their bodies, filtering out the tiny particles on which they feed.

Statistics

The tubes are at least 60cm (24in) high.

Physical Description

At shallow depths yellow tube sponges have a shape which resembles a cactus. In deeper waters, the sponges develop long, straight tubes.

Their vivid yellow colour is probably due to special fluorescent pigments in the sponge tissue.

Distribution

Yellow tube sponges occur at a wide range of depths in tropical seas, from the surface to several hundred metres down.

Habitat

They are often found in areas with strong currents which facilitate the movement of water into their feeding canals.

Diet

These sponges are filter feeder that feed on bacteria, plankton and detritus.

Behaviour

Sponges are capable of pumping at least five times their own volume of water through their feeding canal every minute. They are able to filter out even the most microscopic bacteria and phytoplankton.

Reproduction

Sponges have male and female organs and reproduce sexually. They can also reproduce without sex: if a part breaks off, or fragments, it will form a new sponge.

Answer 2

I don't know too much, but I can give you their classifications

Kingdoms: Animalia

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Hexactinellida

Sub Orders: Antidiscophona and Hexasterophora

Family: Cladorhizidae

Genus: Hyalonema

Species: Sponge

Answer 3

1. They feed through a process known as "filter feeding".

2. They range in location from the Caribbean, Florida, and Mexico.

3. Their species name is "Aplysina fistularis".

4. The only use yet discovered for them (for humans) is using them as soft bath sponges.

Answer 4

You can squeeze them and they're obsorbent.

Answer 5

the scientific name is Neosperiopsis rigida

they live in the western part of Australia and central New South Wales and in reefs around the world

it grows very ginormous