- In 1758, in the 10th
edition of
Systema Naturae, the
Swedish scientist and
taxonomist Carl
Linnaeus described the
class "Vermes" as:
Animals of slow motion...
- who
classified most
kinds of
sessile animals as
belonging to the
order Zoophyta in the
class Vermes,
mistakenly identified the
genus Spongia as plants...
- (organ pipe corals),
Millepora (fire corals),
Madrepora (stone corals)
Zoophyta: Isis (soft corals),
Gorgonia (sea fans),
Alcyonium (tunicates), Tubularia...
-
nature (tertia natura)".
Petrus Gyllius copied Pliny,
introducing the term
zoophyta for this
third group in his 1535 book On the
French and
Latin Names of...
- nautiluses,
snails and
serpulid worms Lithophyta,
including various corals Zoophyta,
including bryozoans,
coralline algae, Hydra, sea pens, tapeworms, and...
- 10th edition.
Sponges were
included in the 12th edition, in the
class "
Zoophyta",
having been
omitted from
previous editions. The 12th
edition also included...
- quadrupeda, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, mollusca, testacea, et
zoophyta, 1781. "Catalogue of fish
collected and
described by
Laurence Theodore...
- and most
elegant subjects in the
orders of the Testacea, Lithophyta, and
Zoophyta Animalia,
accurately drawn from nature. With
explanations in
English and...
- life,
settles on the
substrate to form a new colony. Gaertner, J. (1774)
Zoophyta,
quaedam minuta. In: Pallas, P.S.,
Specilegia Zoologia fasc. 10: 24-41...
- may fit well into the
chosen scheme, it did not
apply "to the entozoa,
zoophyta, and infusoria,
which constitute by much the
greatest portion of this division...
