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Zoa - of Zoon
Actinozoa - A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.
Amorphozoa - Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.
Anthozoa - The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.
Bryozoa - A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Calycozoa - A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Echinozoa - The Echinodermata.
Ectozoa - of Ectozoon
Endozoa - See Entozoa.
Entozoa - A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
Entozoa - An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
Entozoa - of Entozoon
Eozoa - of Eozoon
Epizoa - of Epizoon
Haematozoa - of Haematozoon
Heliozoa - An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Hydrozoa - The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.
Hydrozoa - of Hydrozoon
Malacozoa - An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.
Mesozoa - A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
Metazoa - Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.
Microzoa - The Infusoria.
Monozoa - A division of Radiolaria; -- called also Monocyttaria.
Oozoa - Same as Acrita.
Osteozoa - Same as Vertebrata.
Phytozoa - of Phytozoon
Plastidozoa - Same as Protoza.
Polyzoa - Same as Bryozoa. See Illust. under Bryozoa, and Phylactolaemata.
Polyzoa - of Polyzoon
Protozoa - The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.
Protozoa - of Protozoon
Spermatozoa - of Spermatozoon
Spongiozoa - See Sponglae.
Sporozoa - An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
Actinozoa - A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.
Amorphozoa - Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.
Anthozoa - The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.
Bryozoa - A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Calycozoa - A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Echinozoa - The Echinodermata.
Ectozoa - of Ectozoon
Endozoa - See Entozoa.
Entozoa - A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
Entozoa - An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
Entozoa - of Entozoon
Eozoa - of Eozoon
Epizoa - of Epizoon
Haematozoa - of Haematozoon
Heliozoa - An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Hydrozoa - The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.
Hydrozoa - of Hydrozoon
Malacozoa - An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.
Mesozoa - A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
Metazoa - Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.
Microzoa - The Infusoria.
Monozoa - A division of Radiolaria; -- called also Monocyttaria.
Oozoa - Same as Acrita.
Osteozoa - Same as Vertebrata.
Phytozoa - of Phytozoon
Plastidozoa - Same as Protoza.
Polyzoa - Same as Bryozoa. See Illust. under Bryozoa, and Phylactolaemata.
Polyzoa - of Polyzoon
Protozoa - The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.
Protozoa - of Protozoon
Spermatozoa - of Spermatozoon
Spongiozoa - See Sponglae.
Sporozoa - An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.