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Noun 1. [画像:Hydrozoa - coelenterates typically having alternation of generations]Hydrozoa - coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes
Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Cnidaria, phylum Coelenterata - hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals
hydroid, hydrozoan - colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant
genus Hydra - hydras
order Siphonophora, Siphonophora - marine colonial hydrozoans
genus Sertularia, Sertularia - sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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Inter- and intra-colonial genotypic diversity in hermatypic hydrozoans of the family Milleporidae.
Somatic Mutation Is a Function of Clone Size and Depth in Orbicella Reef-Building Corals
The effects of exposure to wave action on the distribution and morphology of the epiphytic hydrozoans Clava multicornis and Dynamenapumila.
Faunal assemblages of intertidal hydroids (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) from Argentinean Patagonia (Southwestern Atlantic Ocean)
ventricosus found bryozoans, ascidians, and hydrozoans (Barrios & Reyes, 2009).
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These little animals (which are actually hydrozoans called vellela vellela) are adapted to live at the air-water interface, where their sail lets them travel on the breeze.
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The most abundant ingested items were a tunicates followed by red algae, hydrozoans, and bryozoans.
Radula development in the giant key-hole limpet Megathura crenulata
Records of oligochaetes in freshwater sponges, on bryozoans, and on colonial hydrozoans from Brazil.
Occurrence of Chaetogaster limnaei K. von Baer, 1927 (Oligochaeta, Naididae) associated with Gastropoda mollusks in horticultural channels in Southeastern Brazil/Ocorrencia de Chaetogaster limnaei K. von Baer, 1927 (Oligochaeta, Naididae) associado com moluscos Gastropoda em canais de horticultura no sudeste do Brasil
The Portuguese man o'war is actually a floating colony of closely related animals called hydrozoans.
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Then there are two groups of close relatives--box jellies and hydrozoans (HIGH-druh-ZOH-unz).
Blooming jellies
The hydrozoans, a sister group of the box jellies, show more variation.
Jelly propulsion: studies of medusan motion reveal secrets of the Earth's first muscle-powered swimmers
The Portuguese man-of-war is not in fact a jellyfish, but a floating colony of closelyrelated animals called hydrozoans, normally found at the surface of the open ocean.
Deadly sea creature found on beach
Biofouling is made up of hundreds of species, such as tubicolous bacteria, protozoan, seaweed, mollusks, bryozoans, cirripeds, polychaetes, ascidians, hydrozoans, and so on.
Application of marine biotechnology in the production of natural biocides for testing on environmentally innocuous antifouling coatings