Abstract:The study of cnidarians has contributed to concepts of biodiversity, evolution and development.
Aquatic, mostly marine metazoans, cnidarians are distinguished from members of other phyla by the presence of cnidocytes typically on tentacles. A cnidocyte contains a cnidocyst, a subcellular capsule containing an extrusible tubule capable of everting as an arrow‐like cnida functioning primarily in predation and defence.
Cnidarians are predominantly tubular polyps or disk‐ to bell‐shaped med… Show more
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