Bryozoa
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bryozoa
From New Latin, dating back to 1840–50; see origin at bryo-, -zoa
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The Bryozoa have many affinities with the Mollusca, to which some naturalists consider them to belong.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
This extremely graceful form is common on Bryozoa at Woods Hole.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
With the foraminifera the microscope shows in the chalk a multitude of crushed fragments, largely the prisms which compose bivalve shells, flakes of shells of Terebratula and Rhynchonella, and minute fragments of corals and Bryozoa.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
Carter, "On the identity in structure and composition of the so-called 'seed-like body' of Spongilla with the winter-egg of the Bryozoa, and the presence of starch-granules in each," Ann.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
In Behring's Straits we return again to the forests of beautiful compound Mollusks, or rather to a variety of "representative species," resembling the Bryozoa and Ascidians so abundant in Baffin's Bay.
From Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. by Alexander Agassiz
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