This sponge is commonly found in the Caribbean Sea and the state of Florida in the U.S.A. It is attached permanently to the spongehead it grows on.
It eats by trapping microscopic plankton in its body by pushing seawater throughout its body. Predators tend to stay away from them because they lack nutrition and they release a toxin that stings the predator when it comes in contact with the sponge.
Sponges do not have a real circulatory system. Sponges have flagellated cells, which are cells with tails that wiggle, all throughout the surface of their body. This creates a water current through the many porous openings in the sponge's body. It has a water-based circulatory system.
It eats by trapping microscopic plankton in its body by pushing seawater throughout its body. Predators tend to stay away from them because they lack nutrition and they release a toxin that stings the predator when it comes in contact with the sponge.
Sponges do not have a real circulatory system. Sponges have flagellated cells, which are cells with tails that wiggle, all throughout the surface of their body. This creates a water current through the many porous openings in the sponge's body. It has a water-based circulatory system.