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CaRMS name details
original description
Ginn, B.K.; Logan, A.; Thomas, M.L.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). <i>Hymedesmia canadensis</i> (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), a new species among new geographical records from the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 78: 1093-1100. [details] Available for editors 
Unreviewed
Diet suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Predators generally for group, most predators (crabs and other invertebrates), find sponges distasteful either because of a presumably offensive odor or because of their spicules. Predators do include littorinid snails and nudibranchs. [details]
Reproduction Asexual reproduction by buds and gemmules and sexual reproduction (internally) by eggs and sperm; free-swimming cilated larvae (in general, most species are believed to be hermaphroditic but may not produce male and female gametes simultaneously). [details]
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