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In most simple type of canal system of Porifera, water flows through which one of the following ways?

Option: 1

Ostia > Spongocoel > Osculum > Exterior
 


Option: 2

Spongocoel > Ostia > Osculum > Exterior
 


Option: 3

Osculum > Spongocoel > Ostia > Exterior
 


Option: 4

Osculum > Ostia > Spongocoel > Exterior


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Water Canal System in Porifera -

Asconoid Type: 

  • The route of water can be represented as: water from exterior → incurrent pores → spongocoel → osculum → water out. For example, Leucosolenia.

 

Syconoid Type: 

  • The route of water can be represented as: dermal pores → incurrent canals → prosopyles → radial canals → internal ostia (apopyles) → spongocoeL → osculum → out. 

Leuconoid Type: 

  • The route of water can be represented as: dermal ostia → incurrent canals → flagellated chambers → apopyles → excurrent canals → larger channels → oscula → out.

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Asconoid type is the simplest type of canal system. The route of water can be represented as: water from exterior incurrent pores spongocoel → → → osculum → water out.

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