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    • Ectoprocta
    • Bryozoa
  • French
    • bryozoaires
  • English
    • bryozoans

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Recent Observations

Animalia-15px

Photos

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Observer

markham

Date

Feb 28, 2012

Tags

Animalia-15px

Photos

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Observer

davidr

Date

Oct 15, 2011
Animalia-15px

Photos

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Observer

kueda

Date

Jun 14, 2009 02:09 PM PDT

Description

Lacy bryozoans, one more common thing I rarely get to see, except while diving.

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Description from Wikipedia

The Bryozoa, also known as Ectoprocta, are a phylum of aquatic animals, typically about 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in) long, that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches and others round the poles. One class lives only in a variety of freshwater environments, and a few members of a mostly marine class prefer brackish...

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