sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
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bryozoan::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
| Type of | invertebrate |
Examples of bryozoan
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Vaughan says the bryozoan data cannot tell us when the seaways last opened.
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Some encrusting bryozoan colonies with mineralizedexoskeletons look very like small corals.
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A group of chemicals called bryostatins can be extracted from the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina.
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Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now studied Swedish bryozoan species using DNA techniques.
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Fossils of about 15,000 bryozoan species have been found.
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The cleavage of bryozoan eggs is biradial, in other words the early stages are bilaterally symmetrical.
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The bryozoan uses the substance to protect its habitat.
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The bryozoan in question, known as Cellarinella nutti, is a filter-feeding invertebrate that looks like branching twigs.
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Individuals of the bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum stretch out their tentacles to filter food particles out of the water.
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- Sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
- (bryozoa) marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
- The Bryozoa, also known as Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals, are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. Typically about long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. ...
- (Bryozoans) Gk word used to describe small invertebrate animals living in colonies as corals.
- (bryozoans) minute sedentary aquatic animals superficially resembling coelenterate polyps, usually living in colonies and having a calcareous exoskeleton.
- (Bryozoa) A phylum of tiny colonial animals that build calcareous structures of many kinds, mostly marine, ranging in age from Ordovician to Present.
- (Bryozoa) 'Lace corals', a fossil that was common in warm shallow Tertiary seas.
- Member of a phylum (Ectoprocta or Bryozoa) of sessile colonial animals, commonly referred to as sea mats or moss animals, that are superficially similar to corals but are instead members of the Lophotrochozoa.
- A marine animal that is made up of a tiny colony of individuals that grow attached to rocks or on seaweed. Examples are Sea Mats and Hornwrack
