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SPONGOCOEL [4 records]

Record 1 2015-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

The inner layer or "endoderm", lines the spongocoel and chambers and parts or the whole of the canals in the wall [of a sponge].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[...] le feuillet interne ou «endoblaste», [est] formé de choanocytes, [et] tapisse la cavité gastrale [...] [d'un Spongiaire].

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
  • Paleontology
DEF

In sponges, an inner chamber ... lined with choanocyte cells.

CONT

The inner cavity of the sponge is called the atrium or spongocoel. The cells that line the atrium are called Choanocytes that have flagella...

OBS

Plural of atrium: atria.

Key term(s)
  • atria

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
  • Paléontologie
DEF

[Chez un Spongiaire,] cavité axiale, tapissée de pinacocytes [...]

CONT

La cavité centrale [des Spongiaires] est appelée cavité gastrale, atrium ou encore spongocoele.

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[In a sponge, the] canals begin on the exterior surface in(...) "inhalant pores"(...) and traverse the wall in various ways in different species to terminate finally in "exhalant pores" in the wall of the spongocoel or in numerous oscula on the exterior surface of the sponge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Un véritable système canalifère parfois compliqué est (...) établi dans les parois du Spongiaire, d'où la notion (...) de "pores exhalants" (...)

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

The surface of an asconoid sponge is perforated by many small openings called incurrent pores,(...) [which] open into the interior cavity(...). A constant stream of water passes through the incurrent pores into the spongocoel and out the osculum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Un véritable système canalifère parfois compliqué est (...) établi dans les parois du Spongiaire, d'où la notion de "pores inhalants" (...)

Spanish

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