Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals)are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. Typically about 0.5 millimetres long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in tropical waters, sketch From the book 'Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale' [Journey to South America: (Brazil, the eastern republic of Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, Patagonia, the republic of Chile, the republic of Bolivia, the republic of Peru), executed during the yea

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Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals)are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. Typically about 0.5 millimetres long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in tropical waters, sketch From the book 'Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale' [Journey to South America: (Brazil, the eastern republic of Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, Patagonia, the republic of Chile, the republic of Bolivia, the republic of Peru), executed during the years 1826 - 1833] Volume 5 Part 1 By: Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d', d'Orbigny, 1802-1857; Montagne, Jean François Camille, 1784-1866; Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868 Published Paris :Chez Pitois-Levrault. Publishes in Paris in 1847