What Do You Mean Pinacocyte?

: one of the flat cells covering the external surface and lining the incurrent and excurrent canals of sponges.

What is Pinacocyte where it occurs?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pinacocytes are flat cells found on the outside of the sponge, as well as, the internal canals of a sponge.

What do Porocytes do?

Porocytes control the amount of water that enters pores into the spongocoel, while choanocytes, which are flagellated cells, aid the movement of water through the sponge, thereby helping the sponge to trap and ingest food particles.

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