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Coelenterata   Listen
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Coelenterata, Coelentera  n. pl.  (Zool.) A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.





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... with a number of heterogeneous forms a group of animals characterized by being composed of two layers of cells comparable with the first two layers in the development of vertebrate animals. Such forms he distinguished as Coelentera, and showed that they had no special affinity with echinoderms, polyzoa, &c. He divided the Coelentera into a group Hydrozoa, in which the sexually produced embryos were usually set free from the surface of the body, and a group Actinozoa, in which the embryos are detached from ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Coelenterata" :   polyp, medusa, Scyphozoa, class Actinozoa, Metazoa, class Scyphozoa, class Anthozoa, Anthozoa, medusoid, phylum Cnidaria, Cnidaria, Actinozoa, jellyfish, coelenterate, medusan, phylum Coelenterata, phylum, cnidarian, subkingdom Metazoa, Hydrozoa, class Hydrozoa


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