glass sponge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any organism of the class Hexactinellida of sponges, which has a skeleton made of four-pointed or six-pointed siliceous spicules.

   “Glass sponges are found in deep water (greater than 500 m) in all oceans of the world, but only inhabit shallower waters (up to 20 m) in four known locations: Antarctica, southern New Zealand, submarine caves in the Mediterranean and coastal waters of the north Pacific.”