18 de setembro de 2013

Vida




Cnidarians: These aquatic animals come in a bewildering variety of forms and include jellyfish, sea anemones, corals, sea pens, sea fans, sea daisies, hyrdoids and hydras. What looks like a single individual is often a colony of polyps with specialised functions. In Porpita (example shown here) there are polyps for providing buoyancy, feeding (in the form of tentacles), digestion and reproduction