"Polyzoa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... type. The radiate type is shown by discoid infusoria, by medusae, by starfish and their allies. The longitudinal type characterises such genera as Vibrio, Filaria, Gordius, and all the annulate animals. Mollusca, rotifers, polyzoa, and such infusoria as are not included in types (1) and (2) belong to the massive type, in which the body and its parts form rounded masses. The longitudinal type is predominantly "animal," the massive type predominantly "plastic" (vegetative). The vertebrate type has both the ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell |
