Sea-mat although the sea-mat called hornwrack resembles dried seaweed it is actually a bryozoan colony of tiny animals
called zooids.
The small
translucent zooids
( approximately 4 mm long ) are budded from stolons and generally rather closely packed.
The third plate also
shows an individual zooid, but in even greater detail and also has additional figures of statoblasts.
In other cnidarian species, the planula is directly produced by
specialized zooids
near the stem base.
The
small translucent zooids
( approximately 4 mm long ) are budded from stolons and generally rather closely packed.
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