Clipart images of corals and sea anemone in the phylum cnidiria. They attach themselves to the bottom using an adhesive 'foot', called a basal disc.
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Polyp
A Radiate Polyp coral, Dendrophyllia.... |
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Polyp, Coral
An individual coral is known as a polyp. They resemble sea anemone, as they have tubular bodies with tentacles. This is a cluster of New England coral polyps.... |
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Polyp, Coral
An individual coral is known as a polyp. They resemble sea anemone, as they have tubular bodies with tentacles. This is a cluster of red coral polyps.... |
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Polyp, Radiate
A Radiate Polyp, an Actinia.... |
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Polyp, Vertical Section
Vertical section through a polyp. Mouth surrounded by tentacles and beneath it the "stomatodaeum."... |
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Porites Furcata
"The polyp of the Porites is an animal somewhat pitcher-shaped, with twelve short tentacula, having unequal polygonal cells, imperfectly defined, slightly radiating by thread-like, pointed rays... |
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Pyrosoma
"The colonies of these singular creatues are in the form of a cartilaginous tube, open at one end. In the walls fo this tube, formed by the coalescence of the mantles of the animals composing it, the... |
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Rotulosa, astraea
"It is to this family more especially that the formation of the coral reeds is to be attributed. In this the corals usually form thick stony masses; the stony rays of the cells are exceedingly numero... |
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Salpa Africana
"Diagram of Salpa africana. o.a., Oral aperture; d.t., dorsal tubercle; te., tentacle; g., ganglion; m., muscle bands; atr., atrium; b.v., blood-vessel; an., anus; a.a., exhalant aperture; v.n., visce... |
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Sarsia
"Medusiform person (Sarsia), one of the Anthomedusae, detached from a hydroid colony of the family Corynidae. b, the long manubrium, bearing (as an exception) medusiform buds; a, mouth." — Ency... |
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Sea Anemone
Edwardsia beautempsi is a species of sea anemone that lives freely in tubes in the sand, unattached.... |
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Sea Anemone, Perpendicular Section of a
An perpendicular section of a sea anemone. Sea anemones are a group of water dwelling, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria; they are named after the anemone, a terrestrial flower. As cnidarians... |
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Sea Colander
Agarum Turneri, Sea Colander, so called from the perforations with which the frond, as it grows, becomes riddled.... |
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Sea Fan, Fan Gorgon (Magnified)
"The Fan Gorgon>, from the Antilles; it often attains a height of eighteen or twenty inches. The resemblance of its network to fine lace gives rise to its name of Sea-Fan."... |
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Sea Fan, Gorgonia Flabellum
"The Fan Gorgon>, from the Antilles; it often attains a height of eighteen or twenty inches. The resemblance of its network to fine lace gives rise to its name of Sea-Fan."... |
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Sea Fan, Gorgonia Verticellata
"The Fan Gorgon>, from the Antilles; it often attains a height of eighteen or twenty inches. The resemblance of its network to fine lace gives rise to its name of Sea-Fan. The Whorled Gorg... |
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Sea Fan, Gorgonia Verticellata (Magnified)
"The Fan Gorgon>, from the Antilles; it often attains a height of eighteen or twenty inches. The resemblance of its network to fine lace gives rise to its name of Sea-Fan. The Whorled Gorg... |
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Sea Pansy
The Sea Pansy (Renilla reniformis) is a sea pen in the Renillidae family. Shown here with a single polypite, the sea pansy is common to Florida beaches.... |
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Sea Pen, Pennatula Spinosa
"These winged species of polypidom are somewhat scythe-shaped, well developed, and furnished with a great quantity of pointed spiculae, which are constituted of bundles at the base of the calyx of eac... |
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Sea Squirt
The prehistoric chordate, the Ascidian or sea squirt.... |
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Sea Squirt Gastrulation
"Gastrulation of an Ascidian. I. Vesicular Morula of an Ascidian flattened and about to undergo gastrulation. II. Gastrulation effected. fh, cavity of the morula, or blasto-invagination; ch, dd, large... |
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Sea-anemone
The sea-anemones are mostly found between tide-marks in rock-pools, or on ledges of stone, adhereing to solid objects by means of the sucker-like base.... |
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Sea-anemone
"Their tentacles, which are disposed in regular circles, and tinged with a variety of bright lively colors, very nearly represent the beautiful petals of some f the most elegantly fringed and radiated... |
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Sea-Anemone
This is a diagram of the sea-anemone, illustrating another type of radial symmetry. A, cross section; B, longitudinal section. c, the chamber between the mesenteries (m).... |
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Sea-anemone, mouth of the
"Their tentacles, which are disposed in regular circles, and tinged with a variety of bright lively colors, very nearly represent the beautiful petals of some f the most elegantly fringed and radiated... |