Sentences with word «hydrozoan»
FREE FLOAT The clear bell of a gelatinous hydrozoan is a floating home for a jelly - rider called a hyperiid amphipod.
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Hydromedusae are a subclass within the class hydrozoan from the phylum Cnidaria — which also includes jellyfish, sea anemones and corals.
«The discovery of green fluorescent protein in a hydrozoan jellyfish in the 1960s has provided a revolutionary tool for modern biologists, transforming our study of everything from the AIDS virus to the workings of the brain,» Gruber said.
This is 10 metres longer than the tentacles of the famous Portuguese man - of - war — which in any case is not a true jellyfish but a hydrozoan.