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Sponge Canal System
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Description: "Diagram showing types of canal system. --After Korschelt and Heider. The flagellate regions are dark throughout, the mesogloea is dotted, the arrows show the direction of the currents. All the figures represent cross-sections through the wall. A. Simple Ascon type (Ec., outer layer; En., inner layer; Mg., mesogloea). B. Sycon type, with flagellage radial chambers (r.c.). CC. Leucon type, with flagellate side aisles on the main radial chambers. D. Still more complex type, with small flagellate chambers (f.ch.)." -Thomson, 1916
Source: Thomson, J. Arthur Outlines of Zoology (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1916) 127
Keywords: sponge canal systems, flagellate, mesogloea, sponge canal current, ascon, sycon, leucon
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