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There are thousands of different types of sponges, so there's not enough room to list them all. Here's a great website showing several hundred different sponges found in the Caribbean so you can get some idea of the different groups they fall into.

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Sea sponges are in the phylum Porifera. More than 80% belong to the class Demospongiae. Most of the remainder are the calcareous sponges, Calcarea. The genus Hexactinellida (glass sponges) is sometimes considered a separate phylum, Symplasma.

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There are the Hexactinellida (which are glass sponges), the Demospongia, and the Calcarea (which are calcareous sponges)

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poriferans. They are great and interesting creatures. They do not move and they are invertebrates (no spinal chord).

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I'm pretty sure it is Tehya something. Sorry

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Phylum Porifera

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Euplectella aspergillum

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Xestospongia testudinaria

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Porifera

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