Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Lamarck's classification (1801–12), a class of animals, divided into the orders Mollia, or acalephs, and Echinoderma (the latter including the Actiniæ).
- In Owen's classification (1855), a subprovince of the province Radiata, containing the five classes Echinodermata, Bryozoa, Anthozoa, Acalephæ, and Hydrozoa.
- In H. Milne-Edwards's classification (1855), the first subbranch of Zoöphytes (contrasted with Sarcodaria), containing the three classes of echinoderms, acalephs, and corals or polyps.
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- zoophytes, radiaria, mollusks, crustacea, (in great variety of species,) and fishes in smaller variety.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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