Coelenterate

Of invertebrate and Cnidaria.   May also be referred to as cnidarian.

Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.

This concept's ID is @1~9716

Cnidaria

  • jellyfish 2 facts

    Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually...

  • polyp 0 facts

    One of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a...

  • medusa 0 facts

    One of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life...

Also contains

  • hydrozoan 4 facts

    Colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant.

  • anthozoan 3 facts

    Sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase...

  • coelenteron 0 facts

    The saclike body cavity of a coelenterate.

  • scyphozoan 0 facts

    Any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid...