Definition of Autozooids. Meaning of Autozooids. Synonyms of Autozooids

- In all colonies a large percentage of zooids are autozooids, and some consist entirely of autozooids, some of which also engage in reproduction. The basic...
- colonies consist of only one type of zooid, the feeding forms known as autozooids. These are supported by an unmineralized "exoskeleton" made of gelatinous...
- autozooid in the colony structure and are usually a similar size and shape as the autozooids. Interzooidal avicularia are wedged between autozooids but...
- forming water intake structures (siphonozooids), feeding structures (autozooids) with nematocysts, and reproductive structures. The entire colony is fortified...
- between the autozooids. By contrast, fixed-walled (or single-walled) cyclostomes have much of the exterior frontal wall calcified; autozooids normally have...
- mounds among the taller autozooids. Different genera have different proportions of these two kinds of polyps. The autozooids only emerge when the colony...
- formed net-like colonies of relatively thick branches with two rows of autozooids per branch, supported by a vesicular skeleton. Three species are recognized...
- soft substrate. Other polyps are known as secondary polyps. They include autozooids, which are feeding polyps, being armed with cnidocytes on the eight branching...
- the peduncle. The colony may be radially or bilaterally symmetrical. Autozooids have non-retractile, bifurcated calyces with many sclerites. Indo-West...
- mushroom-like capitula covered in numerous holes that would have contained autozooids. Branches had multiple annulations along their length, which were also...