How To Use Polyzoa In A Sentence
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Mollusca, rotifers, polyzoa, and such infusoria as are not included in types (1) and (2) belong to the massive type, in which the body and its parts form rounded masses.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Polyzoa and the pedicellariæ of Echinoderms, between Ichthyosauria and
On the Genesis of Species
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Certain compound animals, or zoöphytes as they have been termed, namely the Polyzoa, are provided with curious organs called avicularia.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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You will often find other forms of polyzoa in clear ponds and mill-pools; sometimes you would suppose you were looking at a mass of sponge, as in the case of
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
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Mivart adduces this case, chiefly on account of the supposed difficulty of organs, namely the avicularia of the Polyzoa and the pedicellariæ of the Echinodermata, which he considers as essentially similar, having been developed through natural selection in widely distinct divisions of the animal kingdom.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Early in life he became the leading authority on the Polyzoa; and later the vertebrate remains from caverns and river-deposits occupied his attention.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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In the avicularia and vibracula of the Polyzoa we have organs widely different in appearance developed from the same source; and with the vibracula we can understand how the successive gradations might have been of service.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea-anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a "polypier," or "polypidom.
Autobiography and Selected Essays
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And as the little coral reef out of a vast depth had been built up by generations of polyzoa, so she would see that on the earth, through illimitable ages, successive generations of animals and plants had left in stone their imperishable records: and at the top of the series she would meet the thinking, breathing creature known as man.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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I hope, supply me with figures and descriptions of the British Polyzoa and Hydrozoa, and I have confidence in my friend, Mr. Dyster of Tenby
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea - anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a "polypier," or "polypidom.
Autobiography and Selected Essays
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In one species observed by me all the avicularia on the same branch often moved simultaneously backwards and forwards, with the lower jaw widely open, through an angle of about 90°, in the course of five seconds; and their movement caused the whole polyzoary to tremble.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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It looks likely to contain some fresh-water polyzoa, than which there are few more beautiful tenants of the water.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
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(viz. the Polyzoa or, as they are sometimes called, the Bryozoa).
On the Genesis of Species
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Certain compound animals, or zoöphytes as they have been termed, namely the Polyzoa, are provided with curious organs called avicularia.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Among the _Anthozoa_ are the Anemones; among the _Polyzoa_, are the Madrepores, or Coral-Builders, and many others.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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Besides the avicularia, the Polyzoa possess curious organs called vibracula.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Reaumur, admitting the analogy indicated by Peyssonel, gave the name of polypes, not only to the sea - anemone, the coral animal, and the fresh-water Hydra, but to what are now known as the Polyzoa, and he termed the skeleton which they fabricate a “polypier,” or “polypidom.”
Autobiography and Selected Essays
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Such are the corals; those corallines which are called Polyzoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
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Some divide them into two great classes, namely: the _Anthozoa_, or Flower-Life; and the _Polyzoa_, or Many-Life, in which the individuals are associated in numbers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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Yet the echinus can have, at the best, none but the most distant genetic relationship with the Polyzoa.
On the Genesis of Species
