The sessile, colonial animals in the phylum bryozoa (moss animals) possess a lophophore feeding apparatus as do the horseshoe worms (phoronids) and lamp shells (brachiopods) and some researchers place them in a group called lophophorata.
Ross coral, Pentapora fascialis, grows in the Little Russel, which is the sea channel between Guernsey and Herm off Guernsey's capital, St. Peter Port. The zooids form heavily calcified bilaminar plates that intersect to produce a three-dimensional solid but brittle structure that resembles a coral head (phylum cnidaria) hence the common name. This colony was growing on a cobble on the seafloor. It had a width of about 30 cm. These colonies can live 12 years. It was photographed on 11 July 2004.
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File No. 110704 13-745
Ross coral, Pentapora fascialis, grows in the Little Russel, which is the sea channel between Guernsey and Herm off Guernsey's capital, St. Peter Port. The zooids form heavily calcified bilaminar plates that intersect to produce a three-dimensional solid but brittle structure that resembles a coral head (phylum cnidaria) hence the common name. This colony was growing on a cobble on the seafloor. It had a width of about 30 cm. These colonies can live 12 years. It was photographed on 11 July 2004.
File No. 110704 13-745
File No. 110704 13-745
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Keywords: marine life bryozoa bryozoan guernsey marine life british marine life colonial animal channel islands marine life european marine life zooids gymnolaemata cheilostomatida ross coral rose coral pentapora fascialis bilaminar plate calcified colony guernsey bryozoan resembles coral little russel hippoporinidae box shaped zooid cheilostomatid
