Venus Flower Basket Sponge

It s a kind of glass sponge which means they have a skeleton made up of spicules tiny spiky structures made of silica also known as silicon dioxide.

Venus flower basket sponge. Aspergillum class hexactinellida glass sponges. The venus flower basket is a sponge found at depths of around 100 to 1 000 metres 330 to 3 300 feet on the ocean floor near japan and the philippines. There s not much to the the venus flower basket sponge because it doesn t even have one organ system.

Known as the venus flower basket this artefact is actually the skeleton of a deep ocean sponge. In the living animal the skeleton is covered by a thin layer of cells. This is how oxygen gets around it.

Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. The name venus s flower basket derives from the sponges delicate white latticelike skeletons made of silica. The holes also serve as the sponge s way of moving under water.

The venus flower basket euplectella aspergillum is a glass sponge in the phylum porifera. Venus flower basket glass sponge. The venus flower basket looks like an otherworldly creature one would find on an alien planet.

Looking more like delicate sculptures than animals these tube shaped sea sponges typically stand 10 30 cm tall and filter tiny food particles from the seawater as it flows through their bodies. Close posted by just now. Venus flower basket glass sponge.

It is a marine sponge found in the deep waters of the pacific ocean. One particular type of glass sponge famously called the venus flower basket euplectella spp is known to house two small shrimps a male and a female inside its glass skeleton. Luckily the glass sponges the group to which euplectella aspergillum otherwise known as venus flower basket belongs had a nearly half billion year head start on the research and development side.