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Definition of Hyalospongiae
1. Noun. Sponges with siliceous spicules that have six rays; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers.
Group relationships: Phylum Porifera, Porifera
Member holonyms: Glass Sponge, Euplectella, Genus Euplectella
Generic synonyms: Class
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyalospongiae
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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