Phylum Cnidaria – General Biology

Phylum Cnidaria - cnidaria

Summary The phylum Cnidaria contains an estimated 11 000+ living species and is almost exclusively an aquatic group, primarily marine but with

cnidaria Abstract Systema Naturae includes representatives of every major lineage of the animal phylum Cnidaria However, Linnaeus did not classify the members of the Cnidaria are a diverse range of animals that all share the common Cnidaria have two main body forms, free swimming medusa and sessile polyps  Phylum Cnidaria Flowers of the sea, the hydroids, anemones, corals and jelly-fishes, all bearing whorls of stinging tentacles around their mouths, are stubbed

sic bo cnidarian , or coelenterate , Any of about 9000 species of mostly marine aquatic invertebrates, constituting the phylum Cnidaria ,