It is a branching colonial sponge, though solitary individuals are also found. It is found in shallow water up to a depth of 50 fathoms (1 fathom = 6 feet) where waves provide the animal with plenty of food and well oxygenated water. Scypha, also known as crown sponge, is a small, marine sponge found attached by a sticky secretion to some submerged solid object like rocks, shells of molluscs and corals. Habit, Habitat and Distribution of Scypha : Grantia, an European genus, is another syconoid sponge. Scypha, however, represents first stage of folding in its body wall having finger-like horizontal folds, referred to as typical syconoid type. In fact, due to various degrees of folding in the body wall, the organisation of such sponges varies much. Scypha is somewhat more complex type in comparison to Leucosolenia because Leucosolenia is primitive asconoid type without any folding in its body wall the body wall of Scypha is somewhat folded and, therefore, its spongocoel is comparatively reduced. According to de Laubenfels (1936) the name Sycon must be replaced by Scypha. Scypha (Gr., skyphos = cup) was formerly called Sycon. Habit, Habitat and Distribution of Scypha 3. In this article we will discuss about Scypha:- 1.
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