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Polyzoa

noun
1.
Marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids.  Synonyms: Bryozoa, phylum Bryozoa.



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"Polyzoa" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the present day, certain groups of animals which are never found in fresh waters, being unable to live anywhere but in the sea. Such are the corals; those corallines which are called Polyzoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the forms of ...
— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various
... organs of which were disposed radially about a centre. De Blainville included in his group many unicellular forms such as Noctiluca (see PROTOZOA), sea-anemones, corals, jelly-fish and hydroid polyps, echinoderms, polyzoa and rotifera. T. H. Huxley afterwards restricted the term. He showed that in de Blainville's group there were associated with a number of heterogeneous forms a group of animals characterized by being composed of two layers of cells comparable with the first two layers in the ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Polyzoa" :   animal kingdom, phylum Bryozoa, phylum, moss animal, Entoprocta, Endoprocta, Animalia, kingdom Animalia, sea moss, phylum Entoprocta, polyzoan, sea mat, bryozoan, Ectoprocta, phylum Ectoprocta


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