THE RED CORAL, just described, belongs to the section of zoophytes called Asteroida by Cuvier, in which the surface of the polypidom is fleshy, and each polypus has only eight arms.
The Zoophyteswere placed by Linnæus in two divisions.
Some fresh-water shells have been found in it, but few of marine origin, and no remains of those zoophytes and crinoidea so abundant in the mountain limestone and other rocks.
I will mention only one class of facts, relating to certainzoophytes in the more highly organized division of that class.
In some of the gullies and hollows there were beautiful green and other coloured fishes, and the form and tints of many of the zoophytes were admirable.
At low water hundreds of these zoophytes might be seen, projecting like stubble, with the truncate end upwards, a few inches above the surface of the muddy sand.
THE forms of animal life which are now united in an independent class, under the name Polyzoa, so nearly resemble the Hydroid Zoophytes in general form and appearance that a casual observer may suppose them to be nearly identical.
I am not aware whether the surmise, that these tiny zoophytes help to purify the water by exhaling oxygen gas, has yet been verified.
Those yellow plants which I likened to squirrels' tails and lobsters' horns, and what not, are zoophytes of different kinds.
This genus of Actinioid zoophytes is distinguished from Actinia proper by the tubercles or warts which stud the outer covering of the animal.
The Hydroid Zoophytes are represented in the first plate by the following examples.
Olaus Magnus gives us the accompanying illustration of Zoophytes and Sponges.
It has been already remarked that there are rocks in the interior of continents, at various depths in the earth, and at great heights above the sea, almost entirely made up of the remains of zoophytes and testacea.
From what we know of the growth of similar zoophytes in modern reefs, we infer that the rate of increase was extremely slow, and some of the fossils must have flourished for ages like forest-trees, before they attained so large a size.
Fleming, affords us a proof that theZoophytes are long-lived, and slow in attaining maturity.
But Edward could not live on Zoophytes and Butterflies.
Edward found numerous Zoophytes along the coast, which excited his admiration almost as much as the Star-fish.
Some of theZoophytes are fine specimens; others are both fine and rare.
We find a letter from Mr. Macdonald, secretary to the Elgin Museum, referring to eighty-five Zoophytes which Edward had sent him to be named.
The number of species of Sertularian Zoophytes comprised in this collection amounts to thirty-one, belonging to five genera, all of which appear to be common to both the Northern and Southern hemispheres; and four are European types.
Doubtless, among the rusty anchors and weed-clung ribs of long-lost armadas, there nestle gigantic zoophytes and enormous starfish, which would make the fortune of the Gardens in a single season.
The council has only established the aquarium a few years, and already it is well stocked with specimens of British zoophytes and annelides, for the most part dredged from the neighbourhood of Weymouth.
We shall not attempt to describe the different species of zoophytes and annelides, amounting to hundreds--indeed, they are not all familiar to scientific men.
These rudimentary zoophytes differ from the swimming gastraeads chiefly in being attached at one end (the end opposite to the mouth) to the floor of the sea.
These zoophytes extract from the sea water the lime and silicium which are found there in the state of soluble salts.
We remark all over the body of these zoophytes certain cutaneous elongations, disposed so as to favour the exercise of the breathing function.
Now, although I have not actually examined these petrified Mushrooms of the sea, I have no reason to doubt but that they are true genera or species of Madrepores, containing, like others, the zoophytes which form them.
But it is only a question of time when the trade shall cease; the demand which every year clears the submarine fields of these zoophytes causes such destruction that their reproduction will soon cease to be equal to the demand.
The zoophytes which constitute the class Zoantharia are quite great personages.
We are about to describe zoophytes free of all fetters; animals "which walk in their strength and liberty.
Let the reader picture to himself a star-fish borne upon the summit of a flexible stem firmly rooted in the soil, and he has a general idea of the zoophytes which compose the order of the Crinoïdea.
These curious zoophytes resemble a flower borne upon a stem, which terminates in an organ called the calyx, but which is, properly speaking, the head of the animal.
For this reason sea-anemones are dangerous inhabitants of an aquarium stocked with creatures having the power of locomotion, and are best placed in a tank with other zoophytes like themselves.
The zoophytes are the most remarkable of all marine creatures.
To this order of Zoophytes belong the "corals" or Zoanthoid polypes, which produce the coral reefs, extending in some cases hundreds of miles.
The fourth order of Zoophytesare the Ascidioida, including formerly the Flustræ (fig.
These Zoophytes are entirely gelatinous, and have beautiful variations of colour.
The third order of Zoophytes is the Helianthoida, which include the "Actinia.
Having brought his examination of the mineral kingdom to a conclusion, the visitor should notice the fossil zoophytes and shells from various deposits, arranged upon the other tables of the room.
I will mention only one class of facts, relating to certain zoophytes in the more highly organised division of that class.
An immemorial name of several zoophytes and marine creatures of the class Acalephæ, which have the power of stinging, particularly the Medusæ.
A name given to a form of coral reef, the architecture of myriads of zoophytesin tropical seas.
Herring-bone Coral" of Ellis, one of the most common Zoophyteson our coast.
Some of the Medusæ and other Zoophytes are armed by millions of minute organs known as "thread cells.
For our first knowledge of the life-history of theseZoophytes we are indebted to the Norwegian naturalist Sars.
I glimpsed piles of stones covered by a couple million zoophytes and tangles of algae.
Here a huge boneyard forms from fish, mollusks, and zoophytes dying over it by the billions.
But since I had no hope of studying these zoophytes in the seaports of the Levant, from which we were separated by the insuperable Isthmus of Suez, I had to be content with observing them in the waters of the Red Sea.
Some zoophytes were dredged up by the chain of our trawl.
But for a few minutes I kept accidentally confusing the two kingdoms, mistakingzoophytes for water plants, animals for vegetables.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zoophytes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
