Minchin (1896, 1898, 1908) also concluded that the pinacocytes could leave the dermal epithelium and become calcoblasts in both larva and adult sponge.
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As you can see in Fig 27.7, sponges have only three types of cells in their bodies: pinacocytes (epithelial cells), choanocytes (collar cells) and amoebocytes (amoeboid cells).
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Despite this, in some studies the origin of new pinacocytes is not clear or is disputed (Wilson and Penney, 1930; Borojevic and Lévi, 1965).
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