Phylum Porifera (Pori = Pores: feron = bearing): Members of the phylum Porifera are also called sponges.
Characteristic features of the phylum:
1. Habitat: They are aquatic, mostly marine but few species...
Characteristics of members belonging to phylum Cnidaria:
1. Habitat: They are aquatic, mostly marine and few of them are fresh – water forms.
2. Forms: They are sessile or free swimming.
3. Cnidoblasts:...
1. Hemiehordata was earlier considered as sub phylum of Chordata because the buccal diverticulum was considered a notochord. It is now placed as a separate phylum under Non-Chordata.
2. It possesses certain...