Phylactolaemata: alternatives and connections

A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and…

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…

An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wr…

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.

An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.

A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.

Alt. of Epistome

A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.

Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition…

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.

One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. Th…

An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome.

eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by…

One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema.

Shaped like a horseshoe.

echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders

large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff poin…