Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
phylum within thesuperphylum Radiata — thecorals ,hydra ,jellyfish etc..
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Cnidaria.
Examples
-
This unusual creature is not actually a fish, but an invertebrate from the Coelenterate phylum (the same phylum as coral, also called Cnidaria).
Ghost of a flea 2009
-
For the first time, HMG domain sequences from non-bilaterian phyla (Calcispongia, Demospongiae, Ctenophora and Cnidaria) have been included in a phylogenetic study of the SOX family.
As Expected 2008
-
The book also uses the archaic term "Coelenterata" as a phylum comprising the subphyla Cnidaria (jellyfish and anemones) and Ctenophora (sea gooseberries).
New art frankwu 2007
-
Cnidaria pronounced with a silent c is a phylum containing over 9,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic, mostly marine, environments.
-
Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms.
New art frankwu 2007
-
In fact, there are so many species of beetles that there are more species of beetles than the total number of species currently living in the Phyla Echinodermata, Mollusca, Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Cnidaria, and Porifera combined!
Species richness 2007
-
The uni-axial Gastraea became sessile, and gave rise to two stems, the Sponges and the Cnidaria (the latter all reducible to simple polyps like the hydra).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
-
On this hypothesis, which I advanced in 1872 in the first sketch of the gastraea-theory (Monograph on the Sponges), there is no direct affinity between the Platodes and the Cnidaria.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
-
When we try to construct an animal frame of the simplest conceivable type, that has some such primitive alimentary canal and the two primary layers constituting its wall, we inevitably come to the very remarkable embryonic form of the gastrula, which we have found with extraordinary persistence throughout the whole range of animals, with the exception of the unicellulars -- in the Sponges, Cnidaria, Platodes,
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
-
The lowest form of the Cnidaria is also not far removed from the gastraeads.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.