Fig. 5. Bryozoa (soft-bodied forms) 



BRYOZOA (Coral Patches, etc.) 



The Bryozoa include some soft -bodied, and some 

 hard-bodied forms. Bryozoa are colonial animals, 

 the colony being made np of hundreds or thousands 

 of minute individuals. The colony may vary in 

 appearance from a branching structure suspended 

 by a single strand (fig. s) to a moss-like mat of 

 material or a thin encrusting growth (so-called 

 coral patch) which spreads over a large area 



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