realized they’d discovered a new species: Vitrumanthus flosculus, or the small flower zoantharian. Zoantharians are marine invertebrates related to other better-known cnidarians such as ...

There are over 2,000 known species, though it's thought the ocean might hold as many as 300,000. They are a diverse group, all belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. When ranking by the threat they ...

Cnidarians have a simple body plan ... While reproductive strategies vary with the diversity of coral species, synchronous spawning events can cloud the water column with gametes and larvae ...

They also compared the genomes to other Cnidarian species to understand the genetic differences underlying body plan and the jellies’ particular development from polyps to free-swimming animals. K.

Jellyfish are invertebrates – animals that don’t have a backbone – and belong to a group called Cnidaria. Some of their closest relatives include colourful corals and anemones. “Jellyfish are ...

Cnidarians are the sister taxa to all those animals.” These results suggest that V-set domains evolved earlier than expected, says Nicotra, “back in the last common ancestor of Cnidarians and all the ...

Stanley Gardiner and J.J. Lister. The Natural History Museum cnidaria collection is used for taxonomic research, studies of coral richness (species, generic, morphological, genetic), as well as for ...