Outlook to the future of sponges

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 27-32

  Vacelet, Jean ^a,b  

^a Astra Pharmaceutical ^*  (Australia)

^b STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

Body plan; Carnivory; Defining characters; Evolutionary trends; Porifera; Precambrian fossils

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; FUTURE PROSPECT; SPONGE;

PORIFERA;

EID: 0033504583     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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