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- Porifera, phylum Porifera
- coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges
- zoophyte
- any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge
- Parazoa, subkingdom Parazoa
- multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa; comprises the single phylum Porifera
- sponge, poriferan, parazoan
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- sponge genus
- a genus of Porifera
- Hyalospongiae, class Hyalospongiae
- sponges with 6-rayed siliceous spicules; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers
- glass sponge
- a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae
- Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata
- hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals
- Euplectella, genus Euplectella
- a genus of Hyalospongiae
- Venus's flower basket
- deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; East Indian and East Asian coast
- coelenterate family
- a family of coelenterates
- coelenterate genus
- a genus of coelenterates
- Metazoa, subkingdom Metazoa
- multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system
- coelenterate, cnidarian
- radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms
- Scyphozoa, class Scyphozoa
- coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes
- polyp
- one of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or coral: usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth
- medusa
- one of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
- Hydrozoa, class Hydrozoa
- coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes
- jellyfish, medusa, medusan
- any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
- Aegina
- small medusa
- scyphozoan
- any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle
- Chrysaora, genus Chrysaora
- a genus of Scyphozoa
- Chrysaora quinquecirrha
- a type of jellyfish
- hydrozoan, hydroid
- colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant
- siphonophore
- a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored
- genus Hydra
- hydras
- hydra
- small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp
- Siphonophora, order Siphonophora
- marine colonial hydrozoans
- nanomia
- small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey
- genus Nanomia
- a genus of Siphonophora
- Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war, jellyfish
- large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
- Physalia, genus Physalia
- Portuguese man-of-war
- praya
- colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long
- apolemia
- large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long
- sertularian
- feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps
- Sertularia, genus Sertularia
- sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies
- Anthozoa, class Anthozoa, Actinozoa, class Actinozoa
- no alternation of generations the medusoid phase being entirely suppressed: sea anemones; corals
- anthozoan, actinozoan
- sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
- Actinia, genus Actinia
- a genus of sea anemone common in rock pools
- Actiniaria, order Actiniaria, Actinaria, order Actinaria
- sea anemones
- sea anemone
- marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
- actinia, actinian, actiniarian
- any sea anemone or related animal
- Alcyonaria, order Alcyonaria
- corals and sea anemones having eight branches
- Pennatula, genus Pennatula
- type genus of the family Pennatulidae: sea pens
- Alcyonacea, suborder Alcyonacea
- comprising the soft corals
- Pennatulidae, family Pennatulidae
- sea pens
- sea pen
- fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies
- sea fan
- corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton
- coral
- marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
- Gorgonacea, suborder Gorgonacea, Gorgoniacea, suborder Gorgoniacea
- red corals and sea fans
- gorgonian, gorgonian coral
- corals having a horny of calcareous branching skeleton
- sea feather
- corals forming featherlike colonies
- red coral
- corals of esp. the Mediterranean having pink or red color used for ornaments and jewelry
- brain coral
- massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface
- Madreporaria, order Madreporaria
- stony corals
- stony coral, madrepore, madriporian coral
- corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands
- Maeandra, genus Maeandra
- brain corals
- Acropora, genus Acropora
- coelanterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals
- staghorn coral, stag's-horn coral
- large branching coral resembling antlers
- mushroom coral
- flattened disk-shaped stony coral usually solitary
- Fungia, genus Fungia
- mushroom corals
- Ctenophora, phylum Ctenophora
- comb jellies; sea acorns; a small phylum formerly considered a class of Coelenterata
- ctenophore family
- a family of ctenophores
- ctenophore genus
- a genus of ctenophores
- ctenophore, comb jelly
- biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
- ctene
- comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused
- Nuda, class Nuda
- ctenophores lacking tentacles; comprises one genus: Beroe
- beroe
- delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores
- genus Beroe
- coextensive with the class Nuda
- Tentaculata, class Tentaculata
- ctenophores have retractile tentacles
- sea gooseberry
- ctenophore having a rounded body with longitudinal rows of cilia
- Cydippida, order Cydippida, Cydippidea, order Cydippidea, Cydippea, order Cydippea
- ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles
- Platyctenea, order Platyctenea
- an order of Tentaculata
- platyctenean
- ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body
- Pleurobrachiidae, family Pleurobrachiidae
- sea gooseberries
- Pleurobrachia, genus Pleurobrachia
- sea gooseberries
- Cestida, order Cestida
- ctenophore having short tentacles; one family
- comb
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- Cestidae, family Cestidae
- coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body
- Cestum, genus Cestum
- Venus's girdle
- Venus's girdle, Cestum veneris
- ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body
- Lobata, order Lobata
- ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes
- rotifer
- minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
- Rotifera, phylum Rotifera
- a phylum including: rotifers
- onychophoran, velvet worm, peripatus
- any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
- Onychophora, class Onychophora
- enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids
- Peripatidae, family Peripatidae
- a family of Onychophora
- genus Peripatus
- type genus of Peripatidae; onychophorans of chiefly New World tropical regions
- Plicatoperipatus, genus Plicatoperipatus
- a genus of Peripatidae
- Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
- a kind of onychophoran
- Peripatopsidae, family Peripatopsidae
- a family of Onychophora
- Peripatopsis, genus Peripatopsis
- type genus of Peripatopsidae; onychophorans of chiefly Asiatic and African tropical regions
- Phoronida, Phoronidea, phylum Phoronida
- small phylum of wormlike marine animals
- Bryozoa, phylum Bryozoa, polyzoa
- marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
- phoronid
- hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom
- bryozoan, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, moss animal
- sessile aquatic animal forming mosslike colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
- Ectoprocta, phylum Ectoprocta
- coextensive with or a subphylum of Bryozoa
- ectoproct
- sessile mosslike aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles
- Entoprocta, phylum Entoprocta, Endoprocta
- sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa
- entoproct
- any of various mosslike aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles
- Symbion pandora
- only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases
- Cycliophora, phylum Cycliophora
- tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta
- Brachiopoda, phylum Brachiopoda
- marine invertebrates that resemble mollusks
- brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell
- marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide
- peanut worm, sipunculid
- small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut
- Sipuncula, phylum Sipuncula
- peanut worms
- Echinodermata, phylum Echinodermata
- radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers
- echinoderm family
- a family of echinoderms
- echinoderm genus
- a genus of echinoderms
- echinoderm
- marine invertebrates with tube feet and calcite-covered five-part radially symmetrical bodies
- starfish, sea star
- echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
- Asteroidea, class Asteroidea
- sea stars
- brittle star, brittlestar, serpent star
- an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc
- Ophiuroidea, class Ophiuroidea
- brittle stars and basket stars
- Ophiurida, subclass Ophiurida
- brittle stars
- basket star, basket fish
- any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc
- Euryalida, subclass Euryalida
- basket stars
- sea urchin
- shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells
- Euryale, genus Euryale
- basket stars
- Astrophyton, genus Astrophyton
- includes many of the basket stars
- Astrophyton muricatum
- a variety of basket star
- Gorgonocephalus, genus Gorgonocephalus
- basket stars
- Echinoidea, class Echinoidea
- sea urchins and sand dollars
- sand dollar
- flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms
- edible sea urchin, Echinus esculentus
- a sea urchin that can be eaten
- Exocycloida, order Exocycloida
- flat sea urchins
- heart urchin
- sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell
- Spatangoida, order Spatangoida
- heart-shaped sea urchins
- crinoid
- primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk
- Crinoidea, class Crinoidea
- sea lilies
- sea lily
- crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface
- Ptilocrinus, genus Ptilocrinus
- sea lilies
- Antedonidae, family Antedonidae
- feather stars; formerly called family Comatulidae
- Antedon, genus Antedon
- a genus of echinoderms of the family Antedonidae; formerly called genus Comatula
- feather star, comatulid
- free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms
- Holothuroidea, class Holothuroidea
- class of echinoderms including the sea cucumbers
- sea cucumber, holothurian
- echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders: sea cucumbers
- Holothuridae, family Holothuridae
- a family of Holothuroidea
- Holothuria, genus Holothuria
- type genus of the Holothuridae
- trepang, Holothuria edulis
- of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food esp. by Chinese
- brachiopod, brachiopodous
- of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda