Definition of Pinacoderm. Meaning of Pinacoderm. Synonyms of Pinacoderm

- The pinacoderm is the outermost layer of body cells (pinacocytes) of organisms of the phylum Porifera (sponges), equivalent to the epidermis in other animals...
- gelatinous matrix within a sponge. It fills the space between the external pinacoderm and the internal choanoderm. The mesohyl resembles a type of connective...
- but the epidermis may secrete a variety of surface coatings such as the pinacoderm of sponges, the gelatinous cuticle of cnidarians (polyps, sea anemones...
- known as ostia. Covering the sponge is a layer of cells known as the pinacoderm, which is composed of pinacocytes. In a sponge, pinacocytes are a thin...
- within bacteriocyte cells, and cyanobacteria or microalgae found below the pinacoderm cell layer where they are able to receive the highest amount of light...
- mesohyl, over which are applied epithelioid monolayers of cells, the outer pinacoderm and the inner choanoderm. Most aspects of sponge biology, including feeding...
- lack true tissues. They have two cell layers: the pinacoderm and the choanocyte layer. The pinacoderm layer is the epidermal layer that consists of pinacocyte...
- found in demosponges; sponges have loosely bound-together skins called pinacoderms, which are only one cell thick, while the skins of chancellorids were...
- reticulum, characterized by tightly free tubes, and a pseudo-atrium with no pinacoderm. One species of Leucascus simplex with has tightly free tubes, a true...
- within bacteriocyte cells, and cyanobacteria or microalgae found below the pinacoderm cell layer where they are able to receive the highest amount of light...