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Vermes. Bryozoa. Entoprocta. Ectoprocta

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Vermes. Bryozoa. Entoprocta. Ectoprocta

Description

Phylum Entoprocta
Marine organisms provided with a ciliary filter apparatus: the lophophore. Colony of Pedicillina cernua (1) and an isolated zooid (2).

Phylum Ectoprocta
Marine and freshwater organisms, mainly colonial forms, provided with a lophophore.
Portion of a colony of Plumatella (3). Flustra, single zooid with everted polypide and cystid (15). Portion of a colony of an incrusting ectoproct (16). Statoblasts (6, 7).
Different larval stages are evident (10, 11).

Ectoprocta have long been called Bryozoa or “moss animals", a term that originally included Entoprocta also.

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wallchart

Subject


• Zoologia, Vermi, Tavola didattica

Object languages:

German

Sources


• Cassettiera B - 2

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