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  • proper noun A taxonomic class within the phylum Cnidaria — the corals, sea pens and sea anemones.

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Examples

  • He was the Coral Worm ( "Anthozoa," if you prefer).

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Coral reefs by definition are composed predominantly of scleractinian corals (Phylum Cnidaria; Class Anthozoa; Order Scleractinia).

    Coral reef 2010

  • The coral is an invertebrate (Anthozoa) species found growing as colonies in the deep ocean.

    Gemology Red Coral: Wear Ring or Mala to Mitigate the Negative Effects of Mars in Your Horoscope 2009

  • Longer wavelength fluorescent proteins, emitting in the orange and red spectral regions, have been developed from the marine anemone, Discosoma striata, and reef corals belonging to the class Anthozoa.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Some divide them into two great classes, namely: the _Anthozoa_, or Flower-Life; and the _Polyzoa_, or Many-Life, in which the individuals are associated in numbers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • The wormlike, lazy, fast-multiplying Anthozoa is fighting passively but with terrific power, to set at naught all man's might and wit.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Expression data in the sea anemone (Anthozoa) have even led to the conclusion that the bilaterian antero-posterior and the cnidarian oral-aboral axes are homologous

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Nematostella (Anthozoa) with what is known of their orthologues in bilaterian species

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Furthermore, each major cnidarian lineage experienced specific duplications: group C HOX9-14 genes were independently duplicated in the Scyphozoa and in the Hydrozoa, and several duplications increased the number of HOX2 genes in the Anthozoa (figure 1).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • By including genes from various cnidarian species belonging to Anthozoa, Scyphozoa and Hydrozoa, our analysis allows to identify lineage-specific gene duplications or losses through the comparison of the topology within the gene tree with the known phylogenetic relationships between included species

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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