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Bookmark or Share- Bryozoa - Digital Atlas of Ancient LifeBryozoans are filter feeding invertebrates and can be found in both freshwater and marine habitats, where they are often easy to miss because of their small size and cryptic lifestyle (e.g., encrusting seashells, rocks, or kelp).
- Bryozoans - Paleontological Societybryozoans made up a large part of many lime deposits that accumulated on the sea floors. However, they are sometimes overlooked because they often do not have an obvious, symmetrical shape. Fossil bryozoans may not have a symmetrical shape because every specimen is a complete or broken piece of a colony made of many tiny units called zooids ...
- Freshwater Bryozoan - Home & Garden Information CenterBryozoans are sessile filter-feeding animals, despite their resemblance to some algae. Their name, bryozoan, translates from Latin as “moss animal”. There are over 4,000 species found worldwide, with about 50 species living solely in freshwater.
- Bryozoa - WikipediaBryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) [6] are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about 0.5 millimetres (64 in) long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding.
- moss animal - Encyclopedia BritannicaThe bryozoans are a widely distributed, aquatic, invertebrate group of animals whose members form colonies composed of numerous connected units called zooids (hence the term Polyzoa, which means “many animals”).
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