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The common name "moss animals" is the literal meaning of "Bryozoa", from Greek βρυόν ('moss') and ζῷα ('animals'), based on the mossy appearance of encrusting species. [60] Until 2008 there were "inadequately known and misunderstood type species belonging to the Cyclostome Bryozoan family Oncousoeciidae."
Bryozoology is a branch of zoology specializing in Bryozoa, commonly known as moss animals, a phylum of aquatic invertebrates that live in clonal colonies.
Stenolaemata are a class of exclusively marine bryozoans. Stenolaemates originated and diversified in the Ordovician, and more than 600 species are still alive today. [1] All extant (living) species are in the order Cyclostomatida, the third-largest order of living bryozoans. [2] These animals are stationary suspension feeders that live on the ...
Bryozoans are animals in the phylum Bryozoa. The phylum is subdivided in 3 classes: Phylactolaemata, Stenolaemata and Gymnolaemata. Subcategories.
Fenestella is a genus of bryozoans or moss animals, forming fan–shaped colonies with a netted appearance. It is known from the Middle Ordovician to the early Upper Triassic , reaching its largest diversity during the Carboniferous. Many hundreds of species have been described from marine sediments all over the world.
Bugula neritina (commonly known as brown bryozoan or common bugula) is a cryptic species complex of sessile marine animal in the genus Bugula. [2] It has a practically cosmopolitan distribution, being found in temperate and tropical waters around the world, and it has become an invasive species in numerous locations.
The lophophore (/ ˈ l ɒ f ə ˌ f ɔːr, ˈ l oʊ f ə-/) [1] is a characteristic feeding organ possessed by four major groups of animals: the Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Hyolitha, and Phoronida, which collectively constitute the protostome group Lophophorata. [2] All lophophores are found in aquatic organisms.
Graptolite fossils were later referred to a variety of groups, including other branching colonial animals such as bryozoans ("moss animals") and hydrozoans. The term Graptolithina was established by Bronn in 1849, who considered them to represent orthoconic cephalopods.