Sessile vs Ectoproct - What's the difference?
sessile | ectoproct |
(zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
(botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.
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A Bryozoa or Ectoprocta, a microscopic sessile moss-like aquatic animal (having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles), forming a colony.
As an adjective sessile
is (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”.As a noun ectoproct is
a bryozoa or ectoprocta, a microscopic sessile moss-like aquatic animal (having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles), forming a colony.sessile
English
(wikipedia sessile)Adjective
(-)- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk