Definition of Hyalospongiae

1. Noun. Sponges with siliceous spicules that have six rays; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers.

Exact synonyms: Class Hyalospongiae
Group relationships: Phylum Porifera, Porifera
Member holonyms: Glass Sponge, Euplectella, Genus Euplectella
Generic synonyms: Class

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyalospongiae

Hyacinthus orientalis
Hyacinthus orientalis albulus
Hyades
Hyaena brunnea
Hyaena hyaena
Hyaenidae
Hyalomma
Hyalomma anatolicum
Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum
Hyalomma marginatum
Hyalomma truncatum
Hyalomma variegatum
Hyalophora
Hyalophora cecropia
Hyalospongiae
Hyazyme
Hybanthus
Hyblaean
Hyblean
HycI protease
Hydatigera taeniaeformis
Hyde
Hyde's disease
Hyde Park
Hyderabad
Hyderabadi
Hydnaceae
Hydnocarpus
Hydnocarpus kurzii

Literary usage of Hyalospongiae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... many hyalospongiae, is not uniform as it is in other Metazoa. Indeed, it is extremely variable in most instances, the variability amounting to ..."

2. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"... in the disintegration of oyster-shells, frequently attacking the shells of living animals and contributing to their destruction. 4. Order hyalospongiae. ..."

3. The New Zealand Journal of Science (1885)
"V.—hyalospongiae (originally without a horny skeleton. Skeleton consisting of siliceous spicules with four or six axes.) IV. ..."

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