-
mouth is
surrounded by a ring of
gonozooids and
dactylozooids.
Tentacles are only
found on the
dactylozooids,
which exist furthest away from the mouth, towards...
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nutrients to the rest of the colony.
Other zooids known as palpons, or
dactylozooids,
appear to
contain an
excretory system that may also ****ist in defense...
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between reproduction (gonozooids),
feeding (gastrozooids) and
defense (
dactylozooid). Even
though they are
genetically identical,
there is a
distinct morphological...
- and reproductive,
called gonozooids, and
others protective,
called dactylozooids. The
gonozooids each
produce numerous tiny
jellyfish by an a****ual budding...
- as
digestion (gastrozooids),
reproduction (gonozooids) and
hunting (
dactylozooids). A
fourth type of
zooid is the pneumatop****.
Three of
these types...
-
reproductive polyp. Third,
being the
dactylozooid which function works in
defense for the colony. The
dactylozooid recently had
become more
highly variable...
-
gastropores and dactylopores. In fact,
Millepora means ‘thousand pores’.
Dactylozooids have long fine
hairs that
protrude from the skeleton. The
hairs possess...
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tolerant of siltation. Some of the
polyps of
Millepora complanata are
dactylozooids with hair-like
processes and
stinging cells that
detect the presence...
- from the
central dome. The
outer series of 'tentacles,'
interpreted as
dactylozooids, are all
about the same length. On the
other hand, the
inner series...
-
squarrosa differ from
other corals in the
genus due to the high
number of
dactylozooids on the surface, the
dactylopores they
reside in are also
smaller when...
