Vesiculariidae
Vesiculariidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Ctenostomatida. Genera: * '' Amathia'' Lamouroux, 1812 * ''Avenella'' Dalyell, 1847 * '' Crassicaula'' Baranova, 1992 * '' Vesicularia'' Thompson, 1830 * '' Watersiana'' Calvet, 1912 References {{Authority control Bryozoan families ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Amathia (bryozoan)
''Amathia'' is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Vesiculariidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext .... Species Species: *'' Amathia acervata'' *'' Amathia aegyptiana'' *'' Amathia aggregata'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4186540 Bryozoan genera ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Vesicularia (bryozoan)
''Vesicularia'' may refer to: * ''Vesicularia'' (plant), a moss genus in the family Hypnaceae * ''Vesicularia'' (bryozoan), a bryozoa genus in the family Vesiculariidae Vesiculariidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Ctenostomatida. Genera: * '' Amathia'' Lamouroux, 1812 * ''Avenella'' Dalyell, 1847 * '' Crassicaula'' Baranova, 1992 * '' Vesicularia'' Thompson, 1830 * '' Watersiana'' Calvet, 19 ...

Bryozoans
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding. Most marine bryozoans live in tropical waters, but a few are found in oceanic trenches and polar waters. The bryozoans are classified as the marine bryozoans (Stenolaemata), freshwater bryozoans (Phylactolaemata), and mostly-marine bryozoans (Gymnolaemata), a few members of which prefer brackish water. 5,869living species are known. At least two genera are solitary (''Aethozooides'' and '' Monobryozoon''); the rest are colonial. The terms Polyzoa and Bryozoa were introduced in 1830 and 1831, respectively. Soon after it was named, another group of animals was discovered whose filtering mechanism looked similar, so it was included in Bryozoa until 1869, when the two groups were ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Ctenostomatida
The Ctenostomatida are an order of bryozoans in the class Gymnolaemata. The great majority of ctenostome species are marine, although ''Paludicella'' inhabits freshwater. They are distinguished from their close relatives, the cheilostomes, by their lack of a calcified exoskeleton. Instead, the exoskeleton is chitinous, gelatinous, or composed only of a soft membrane, and always lacks an operculum. Colonies of ctenostomes are often composed of elongated, branch-like stolon In biology, stolons (from Latin '' stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton; typically, animal stolons are external ...s, although more compact forms also exist. References Protostome orders {{bryozoan-stub ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]