-
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...
-
mouth is
surrounded by a ring of
gonozooids and
dactylozooids.
Tentacles are
found only on the
dactylozooids,
which exist furthest away from the mouth, towards...
- as
digestion (gastrozooids),
reproduction (gonozooids) and
hunting (
dactylozooids). A
fourth type of
zooid is the pneumatop****.
Three of
these types...
- functions, the
gastrozooids processing and
digesting the food
caught by the
dactylozooids which are
grouped around them. The
gastrozooids are
small and plump...
- and reproductive,
called gonozooids, and
others protective,
called dactylozooids. The
gonozooids each
produce numerous tiny
jellyfish by an a****ual budding...
-
gastropores and dactylopores. In fact,
Millepora means ‘thousand pores’.
Dactylozooids have long fine
hairs that
protrude from the skeleton. The
hairs possess...
- tentacles.
Scattered among these are
specialized defensive stinging polyps (
dactylozooids) that are long,
coiled threads. The
gonozoids liberate crawling planula...
- 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...
-
tolerant of siltation. Some of the
polyps of
Millepora complanata are
dactylozooids with hair-like
processes and
stinging cells that
detect the presence...
-
reproductive polyp. Third,
being the
dactylozooid which function works in
defense for the colony. The
dactylozooid recently had
become more
highly variable...
