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Anthozoa

Index Anthozoa

Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates which includes the sea anemones, stony corals, soft corals and gorgonians. [1]

133 relations: Actinostola, Aeolidia papillosa, Aggregating anemone, Alcyonacea, Alcyonium digitatum, Algae, Algal bloom, American Samoa, Amphipoda, Ancient Greek, Anthopleura, Anthopleura stellula, Arachnanthus sarsi, Arthropod, Atlantic Ocean, Black coral, Blue coral, Box jellyfish, Brittle star, Bryozoa, Budding, Calcium carbonate, Carbon dioxide, Carnivore, Cerianthus filiformis, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Cilium, Class (biology), Cloning, Cnidaria, Coenosarc, Colony (biology), Commensalism, Coral bleaching, Coral reef, Corallimorpharia, Corallite, Crown-of-thorns starfish, Discosoma, Ediacaran, Exaiptasia, Explosive material, Fish, Fission (biology), Flower, Fossil, Fragmentation (reproduction), Fungia fungites, Gamete, Gastrodermis, ..., Gastrovascular cavity, Gonactinia, Gonochorism, Gorgonian, Great Barrier Reef, Helioporacea, Hermaphrodite, Hermatypic coral, Hexacorallia, Hydrozoa, Incertae sedis, Invasive species, Jellyfish, Leptogorgia virgulata, Lophelia, Marine invertebrates, Mesentery (zoology), Mesoglea, Metabolic waste, Metamorphosis, Mollusca, Monophyly, Myxozoa, Nudibranch, Octocorallia, Oil spill, Orange cup coral, Order (biology), Ordovician, Paleozoic, Pedal disc, Penicillaria, Peristalsis, Permian, Phagocytosis, Pharynx, Photosynthesis, Plankton, Planula, Plumapathes pennacea, Pocillopora damicornis, Pollution, Polychaete, Polyp, Polypodium (animal), Predation, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Pygmy seahorse, Reef, Ribosomal DNA, Rugosa, Scleractinia, Sea anemone, Sea pansy, Sea pen, Sea spider, Sea urchin, Sedimentation, Simnialena marferula, Siphonoglyph, Species, Sperm, Sphincter, Spirularia, Sponge, Starfish, Stolon, Substrate (biology), Symbiosis, Symmetry in biology, Tabulata, Taxon, Trawling, Tritonia wellsi, Tube-dwelling anemone, World Register of Marine Species, Zoantharia, Zoanthidae, Zoanthus, Zoochlorella, Zootaxa, Zooxanthellae, Zygote. Expand index (83 more) »

Actinostola

Actinostola is a genus of sea anemones in the order Actiniaria.

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Aeolidia papillosa

Aeolidia papillosa is a species of nudibranch in the family Aeolidiidae.

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Aggregating anemone

The aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima), or clonal anemone, is the most abundant species of sea anemone found on rocky, tide swept shores along the Pacific coast of North America.

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Alcyonacea

Alcyonacea, or soft corals, is an order of corals which do not produce calcium carbonate skeletons.

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Alcyonium digitatum

Alcyonium digitatum or dead man's fingers is a species of soft coral in the Alcyoniidae family.

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Algae

Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.

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Algal bloom

An algal bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems, and is recognized by the discoloration in the water from their pigments.

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American Samoa

American Samoa (Amerika Sāmoa,; also Amelika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa.

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Amphipoda

Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Anthopleura

Anthopleura is a genus of sea anemones, of the family Actiniidae.

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Anthopleura stellula

Anthopleura stellula is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae.

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Arachnanthus sarsi

Arachnanthus sarsi is a species of sea anemone in the family Arachnactidae.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Black coral

Black corals (Antipatharia) are an order of deep water, tree-like corals.

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Blue coral

Blue coral (Heliopora coerulea) is a species of colonial coral.

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Box jellyfish

Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae.

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Brittle star

Brittle stars or ophiuroids are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea closely related to starfish.

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Bryozoa

Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals.

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Budding

Budding is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site.

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Calcium carbonate

Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the formula CaCO3.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Carnivore

A carnivore, meaning "meat eater" (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning "meat" or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.

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Cerianthus filiformis

Cerianthus filiformis, known commonly as the tube anemone, is a species of marine Cnidaria in the family Cerianthidae.

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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876), German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.

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Cilium

A cilium (the plural is cilia) is an organelle found in eukaryotic cells.

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Class (biology)

In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially.

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Cnidaria

Cnidaria is a phylum containing over 10,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic (freshwater and marine) environments: they are predominantly marine species.

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Coenosarc

In corals, the coenosarc is the living tissue overlying the stony skeletal material of the coral.

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Colony (biology)

In biology, a colony is composed of two or more conspecific individuals living in close association with, or connected to, one another.

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Commensalism

Commensalism is a long term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species are neither benefited nor harmed.

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Coral bleaching

Coral bleaching occurs when coral polyps expel algae that live inside their tissues.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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Corallimorpharia

Corallimorpharia is an order of marine cnidarians closely related to stony or reef building corals (Scleractinia).

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Corallite

A corallite is the skeletal cup, formed by an individual stony coral polyp, in which the polyp sits and into which it can retract.

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Crown-of-thorns starfish

The crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, is a large, multiple-armed starfish that usually preys upon hard, or stony, coral polyps (Scleractinia).

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Discosoma

Discosoma is a genus of cnidarians in the order Corallimorpharia.

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Ediacaran

The Ediacaran Period, spans 94 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period 635 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Cambrian Period 541 Mya.

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Exaiptasia

Exaiptasia is a genus of sea anemone in the family Aiptasiidae, native to shallow waters in the temperate western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Explosive material

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Fission (biology)

Fission, in biology, is the division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts into separate entities resembling the original.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fragmentation (reproduction)

Fragmentation or clonal fragmentation in multi cellular or colonial organisms is a form of asexual reproduction or cloning in which an organism is split into fragments.

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Fungia fungites

Fungia fungites is a species of mushroom coral in the family Fungiidae.

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Gamete

A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein "to marry") is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that sexually reproduce.

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Gastrodermis

The gastrodermis is the inner layer of cells that serves as a lining membrane of the gastrovascular cavity of Cnidarians.

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Gastrovascular cavity

The gastrovascular cavity is the primary organ of digestion and circulation in two major animal phyla: the Cnidaria (including jellyfish and corals) and Platyhelminthes (flatworms).

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Gonactinia

Gonactinia is a monotypic genus of sea anemones, and G. prolifera is the only species in the genus.

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Gonochorism

In biology, gonochorism (Greek offspring + disperse) or unisexualism or gonochory describes the state of having just one of at least two distinct sexes in any one individual organism.

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Gorgonian

Gorgonians are sessile colonial cnidarians found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the tropics and subtropics.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Helioporacea

Helioporacea is an order of the subclass Octocorallia that forms massive lobed crystalline calcareous skeletons in colonial corals.

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Hermaphrodite

In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has complete or partial reproductive organs and produces gametes normally associated with both male and female sexes.

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Hermatypic coral

Hermatypic corals are those corals in the order Scleractinia which build reefs by depositing hard calcareous material for their skeletons, forming the stony framework of the reef.

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Hexacorallia

Hexacorallia is a subclass of Anthozoa comprising approximately 4,300 species of aquatic organisms formed of polyps, generally with 6-fold symmetry.

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Hydrozoa

Hydrozoa (hydrozoans, from ancient Greek ὕδρα, hydra, "sea serpent" and ζῷον, zoon, "animal") are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most living in salt water.

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Incertae sedis

Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Leptogorgia virgulata

Leptogorgia virgulata, commonly known as the sea whip or colorful sea whip, is a species of soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae.

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Lophelia

Lophelia pertusa, the only species in the genus Lophelia, is a cold-water coral which grows in the deep waters throughout the North Atlantic ocean, as well as parts of the Caribbean Sea and Alboran Sea.

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Marine invertebrates

Marine invertebrates are the invertebrates that live in marine habitats.

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Mesentery (zoology)

A mesentery is a membrane inside the body cavity of an animal.

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Mesoglea

Mesoglea, also known as mesohyl, is the translucent, non-living, jelly-like substance found between the two epithelial cell layers (i.e., between the ectoderm and endoderm) in the bodies of cnidarians and sponges.

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Metabolic waste

Metabolic wastes or excretes are substances left over from metabolic processes (such as cellular respiration) which cannot be used by the organism (they are surplus or toxic), and must therefore be excreted.

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Myxozoa

Myxozoa (etymology: Greek: μύξα myxa "slime" or "mucus" + thematic vowel o + ζῷον zoon "animals") is a class of aquatic, obligately parasitic cnidarian animals.

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Nudibranch

Nudibranchs are a group of soft-bodied, marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage.

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Octocorallia

Octocorallia (also known Alcyonaria) is a subclass of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Orange cup coral

Orange cup coral (Tubastraea coccinea) belongs to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals.

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Pedal disc

The pedal disc (also known as a basal plate) is, in anatomy of the sea anemone, the surface opposite to the mouth, and generally serves to attach the anemone to the substrate, or hard surface, upon which it lives.

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Penicillaria

Penicillaria is an order of marine Cnidarians, tube-dwelling anemones, in the subclass Ceriantharia.

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Peristalsis

Peristalsis is a radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagates in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Phagocytosis

In cell biology, phagocytosis is the process by which a cell—often a phagocyte or a protist—engulfs a solid particle to form an internal compartment known as a phagosome.

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Pharynx

The pharynx (plural: pharynges) is the part of the throat that is behind the mouth and nasal cavity and above the esophagus and the larynx, or the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).

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Plankton

Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.

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Planula

A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetric larval form of various cnidarian species.

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Plumapathes pennacea

Plumapathes pennacea is a species of black coral in the order Antipatharia.

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Pocillopora damicornis

Pocillopora damicornis, the cauliflower or lace coral, is a species of stony coral in the family Pocilloporidae.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Polychaete

The Polychaeta, also known as the bristle worms or polychaetes, are a paraphyletic class of annelid worms, generally marine.

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Polyp

A polyp in zoology is one of two forms found in the phylum Cnidaria, the other being the medusa.

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Polypodium (animal)

Polypodium is a genus of parasite attacking the eggs of sturgeon and similar fishes (Acipenseridae and Polyodontidae).

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Ptilosarcus gurneyi

Ptilosarcus gurneyi, the orange sea pen or fleshy sea pen, is a species of sea pen in the family Pennatulidae.

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Pygmy seahorse

The pygmy seahorses comprise several species of tiny seahorse in the syngnathid family or Syngnathidae (seahorses and pipefish).

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Reef

A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.

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Ribosomal DNA

Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is a DNA sequence that codes for ribosomal RNA.

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Rugosa

The Rugosa, also called the Tetracorallia, are an extinct order of solitary and colonial corals that were abundant in Middle Ordovician to Late Permian seas.

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Scleractinia

Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton.

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Sea anemone

Sea anemones are a group of marine, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria.

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Sea pansy

The sea pansy is a species of colonial cnidarian in the family Renillidae.

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Sea pen

Sea pens are colonial marine cnidarians belonging to the order Pennatulacea.

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Sea spider

Sea spiders, also called Pantopoda or pycnogonids, ('pycno-' closely packed, 'gonid' gonidia) are marine arthropods of class Pycnogonida.

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Sea urchin

Sea urchins or urchins are typically spiny, globular animals, echinoderms in the class Echinoidea.

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Sedimentation

Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come to rest against a barrier.

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Simnialena marferula

Simnialena marferula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.

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Siphonoglyph

The siphonoglyph is a ciliated groove at one or both ends of the mouth of sea anemones and some corals.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sperm

Sperm is the male reproductive cell and is derived from the Greek word (σπέρμα) sperma (meaning "seed").

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Sphincter

A sphincter is a circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.

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Spirularia

Spirularia is an order of marine Cnidarians, tube-dwelling anemones, in the subclass Ceriantharia.

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Sponge

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning "pore bearer"), are a basal Metazoa clade as sister of the Diploblasts.

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Starfish

Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.

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Stolon

In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms.

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Substrate (biology)

In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Symmetry in biology

Symmetry in biology is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes within the body of an organism.

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Tabulata

The tabulate corals, forming the order Tabulata, are an extinct form of coral.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Trawling

Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.

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Tritonia wellsi

Tritonia wellsi, the sea whip slug, is a species of nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae.

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Tube-dwelling anemone

Tube-dwelling anemones or ceriantharians look very similar to sea anemones but belong to an entirely different subclass of anthozoans.

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World Register of Marine Species

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.

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Zoantharia

Zoanthids (order Zoantharia also called Zoanthidea or Zoanthiniaria) are an order of cnidarians commonly found in coral reefs, the deep sea and many other marine environments around the world.

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Zoanthidae

Zoanthidae is a family of cnidarian.

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Zoanthus

Zoanthus is a genus of anthozoans in the family Zoanthidae.

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Zoochlorella

Zoochlorella is a genus of green algae comprising one species, Z. parasitica.

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Zootaxa

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists.

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Zooxanthellae

Zooxanthellae are single-celled dinoflagellates that are able to live in symbiosis with marine invertebrates such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones.

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Zygote

A zygote (from Greek ζυγωτός zygōtos "joined" or "yoked", from ζυγοῦν zygoun "to join" or "to yoke") is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.

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Antheozoan, Anthozoan, Anthozoans, True corals.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthozoa

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