Hydrozoan vs Hydranth - What's the difference?
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(biology) Any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class Hydrozoa , including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores.
(zoology) An individual polyp of a hydroid colony
*{{quote-book, 1970, Sylvan Meryl Rose, Regeneration
, passage=NM Stevens (1902) and Emil Godlewski (1904) described the transformation of pieces of stem to hydranths in the marine hydroid.}}
Hydrozoan is a related term of hydranth.
As nouns the difference between hydrozoan and hydranth
is that hydrozoan is (biology) any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class hydrozoa , including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores while hydranth is (zoology) an individual polyp of a hydroid colony.hydrozoan
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