Definition of Anthozoan. Meaning of Anthozoan. Synonyms of Anthozoan

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Definition of Anthozoan

Anthozoan
Anthozoan An`tho*zo"an, a. (Zo["o]l.) Pertaining to the Anthozoa. -- n. One of the Anthozoa.

Meaning of Anthozoan from wikipedia

- which includes the sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals. Adult anthozoans are almost all attached to the seabed, while their larvae can dis****...
- Anthozoan Mountain is a mountain in the Slate Range of Alberta, Canada. Named in 1925, fossilized anthozoans (i.e. coral) are found in the Devonian limestone...
- eventually attaches to a substrate if the species has a polyp stage. Anthozoan larvae either have large yolks or are capable of feeding on plankton,...
- Hydrozoa, and does not group with myxozoans. Medusozoans differ from anthozoans in having a medusa stage in their life cycle. The basic pattern is medusa...
- crevice, burrow or tube. Unlike other cnidarians, anemones (and other anthozoans) entirely lack the free-swimming medusal stage of their life cycle; the...
- simple, like the common little fresh water species of the genus Hydra. Anthozoan polyps, including the corals and sea anemones, are much more complex due...
- in scyphozoans and some hydrozoans, or from a polyp, as in the case of anthozoans. Depending on the species, the planula either metamorphoses directly into...
- similar to sea anemones but belong to an entirely different class of anthozoans. They are solitary, living buried in soft sediments. Tube anemones live...
- 100% In decline since the Devonian, with only one living family Cnidaria Anthozoans 96% Tabulate and rugose corals died out Echinodermata Blastoids 100% May...
- The rugosa, also called the tetracorallia or horn coral, are an extinct order of solitary and colonial corals that were abundant in Middle Ordovician to...