Crambe crambe is the scientific name of the red sponge, one of the most abundant marine macroinvertebrates in the Mediterranean, also present in the Atlantic Ocean. It forms colonies of intense red or orange color that they can occupy up to one square meter of surface. Normally he lives on rocky surfaces, sometimes at the caves entry. It is a sponge incrustante, what means that they can colonize cracks or vertical walls. Some of the substances that it produces are being studied by the scientists for his potential as antiviral and anticarcinogenic.
The sponges or porÃferos they form a very ancient group of living beings that was already present in the Cambrian low one. Nevertheless, these animals were not recognized as such till the end of the XVIIIth century. The body of a sponge consists basically of an aggregation of different types of cells that, although they neither form organs are not even coordinated by means of a nervous system, yes they work to the unison.
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