Invertebrate

Of animal.

Any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification.

This concept's ID is @1~9699

Contains

  • arthropod 22 facts

    Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of ch...

  • echinoderm 9 facts

    Marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies.

  • worm 9 facts

    Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida...

  • mollusk 7 facts

    Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.

  • coelenterate 7 facts

    Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles...

  • ctenophore 6 facts

    Biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes...

  • foot 1 facts

    Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates.

  • exoskeleton 1 facts

    The exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially...

  • sponge 1 facts

    Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal...

  • phoronid 0 facts

    Hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom.

  • peristome 0 facts

    Region around the mouth in various invertebrates.

  • sea moss 0 facts

    Sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular...

  • ectoproct 0 facts

    Sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentac...

  • entoproct 0 facts

    Any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp...

  • Symbion pandora 0 facts

    Only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip...

  • brachiopod 0 facts

    Marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing...

  • peanut worm 0 facts

    Small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into...

  • rotifer 0 facts

    Minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and...

  • zoophyte 0 facts

    Any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or...

  • woodborer 0 facts

    Any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood.