Phylum

Bryozoa (Bryozoans)

Disporella separata. Photo: (c) Jeff Goddard, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals), are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. Typically about 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in) long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a “crown” of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches, and others are found in polar waters. One class lives only in a variety…

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Subtaxa

Class: Stenolaemata

Class: Gymnolaemata

Where in Humboldt

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