NOUN
- coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes
How To Use Hydrozoa In A Sentence
- The most important of the unfinished work consists of the long-delayed "Oceanic Hydrozoa," the "Manual of Comparative Anatomy," and a report on Fisheries. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
- Jellyfish (medusae, which may be hydrozoan, scyphozoan or cubozoan) are important both as predators and prey in pelagic ecosystems.
- Most hydrozoans alternate between a polyp and a medusa stage - they spend part of their lives as ‘jellyfish’ which are hard to distinguish from scyphozoan jellyfish.
- But now that he had left the service, this objection was removed, and in June 1854 the sum of 300 pounds sterling was assigned for this purpose, while the remainder of the expense was borne by the Ray Society, which undertook the publication under the title of "Oceanic Hydrozoa. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
- As mentioned above, a few tetraradial ‘medusoids’ could be scyphozoan jellyfish, but tetraradial symmetry is also typical of the Hydrozoa and Cubozoa.
- One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan.
- Neuronal GSX expression, as reported from several hydrozoan and anthozoan species, is clearly more significant. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Hydra magnipapillata full genome and have not been identified until now in other hydrozoan or scyphozoan species, being only known from the anthozoan PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Hydra magnipapillata full genome and have not been identified until now in other hydrozoan or scyphozoan species, being only known from the anthozoan PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- There are three known cases of independent evolution of a nonfluorescent color: in Hydrozoa and within anthozoan clades A and B.
