In Class 11 Biology (Animal Kingdom), we study the simplest of all animals: the Sponges. A very famous example from the Phylum Porifera is Euspongia, commonly known as the Bath Sponge.
Scientific Name: Euspongia.
Common Name: Bath Sponge.
Phylum: Porifera (Sponges).
Skeleton: Made of soft, elastic Spongin fibres.
Use: Historically harvested and dried to be used as a natural bathing sponge.
Before the invention of synthetic plastic sponges, dried Euspongia was harvested by humans for bathing and cleaning. Because its skeleton is made entirely of soft spongin fibres (with no hard silica spicules), it is highly absorbent, soft on the skin, and does not scratch.
The common name of Euspongia is the 'Bath Sponge'.
Euspongia belongs to the Phylum Porifera, which includes all sponges.
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