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Bryozoa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bryozoa (Greek for "moss animals" because of the appearance of their colonies) can mean: •Ectoprocta, tiny colonial animals that generally build stony skeletons of calcium carbonate •Entoprocta, a ph...
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Gordon, D.P. 2009: New names for some bryozoan homonyms. Zootaxa, 2133: 64-68. Abstract & excerpt ... Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009: New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. ... Phylum: Bryozoa; Classes: Stenolaemata - Gymnolaemata - Phylactolaemata...
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Information about the Phylum Bryozoa including photos, maps, and text. ... Members of the phylum Bryozoa are known as "moss animals" or "moss animacules" (which is the literal translation of the Greek term ?????a, "bry zoa") or as "sea mats". They generally prefer warm, tropical waters, but are known to occur worldwide.
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Kingdom Animalia (animals) ... Phylum Bryozoa (bryozoans, ectoprocts, and moss animals) ... Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Bryozoa...
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Tiny colonial animals (zooids). ... Adult colonies are sessile and usually attached to hard substrates though some can be found encrusting on seaweed. Some colonies are erect and plant-like and can be up to 1 m across. ... Image Key > Bryozoa...
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Bryozoa, also known as the Ectoprocta, is the only phylum in which all known species are colonial. A colony consists of very small individuals called zooids that are physically connected and produced asexually.
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PHOTOVALET (tm) ; Enter search term ... Animals: Aquatic; Coral, Sea Anemone, Sea Fans, Sea Pens, also the Moss Animals- Phylum Bryozoa, Images by Wernher Krutein, Pauline Walsh Jacobson, and PHOTOVAULT®...
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