- 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...
-
autozooid in the
colony structure and are
usually a
similar size and
shape as the
autozooids.
Interzooidal avicularia are
wedged between autozooids but...
-
mounds among the
taller autozooids.
Different genera have
different proportions of
these two
kinds of polyps. The
autozooids only
emerge when the colony...
-
forming water intake structures (siphonozooids),
feeding structures (
autozooids) with nematocysts, and
reproductive structures. The
entire colony is fortified...
-
colonies consist of only one type of zooid, the
feeding forms known as
autozooids.
These are
supported by an
unmineralized "exoskeleton" made of gelatinous...
- soft substrate.
Other polyps are
known as
secondary polyps. They
include autozooids,
which are
feeding polyps,
being armed with
cnidocytes on the
eight branching...
-
autozooids are in two rows
along the stolons, each
zooid being sac-like and 0.4 to 0.6 mm (0.016 to 0.024 in) in length. The
mouth of each
autozooid bears...
-
longitudinal axis.
Siphonozoids are
packed between the
bases of the
retractile autozooids,
which have incon****uous non-retractile
bifurcated calyces.
Colour is...
-
between the
autozooids. By contrast, fixed-walled (or single-walled)
cyclostomes have much of the
exterior frontal wall calcified;
autozooids normally have...
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catch prey,
which is then p****ed to the
somewhat larger neighbouring autozooids.
Crisularia plumosa is
native to the
northeastern Atlantic Ocean, its...
