Cnidaria is a phylum of animals including jellyfish, corals, and sea anemones.
The specimens were from locations all over the world, and included, especially, Lepidoptera, Cnidaria and Molluscs.
She was a specialist in Porifera and Cnidaria with both Scharff and Stephens taking part in the Royal Irish Academy Clare Island Survey.
The Patch reefs from Valle di Rimbianco present a diverse fauna of fossilized calcitic sponges (Porifera), corals (Cnidaria), bivalves and gastropods (Mollusca), Brachiopoda and Echinodermata.
A synonym of Anthomedusae, an order of the Hydrozoa, a class of marine invertebrates belonging to the phylum Cnidaria.
Bogue are host to a wide variety of parasites, ranging from metazoans such as Digenean flatworms, Acanthocephalan spiny-headed worms, nematode roundworms, isopod and copepod crustaceans and Myxozoan cnidarians to the unicellular dinoflagellate Ichthyodinium chabelardi, a parasite that is lethal to eggs developing in ovaries.
Chromera velia was first isolated by Dr Bob Moore (then at Carter Lab, University of Sydney) from the stony coral (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) Plesiastrea versipora (Faviidae) of Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia (collectors Thomas Starke-Peterkovic and Les Edwards, December 2001).
The Parahoxozoa are a proposed grouping of animals based on presence of at least a single Hox/ParaHox gene, uniting Placozoa, Cnidaria (jellyfish) and Bilateria.
TMA has been detected in or isolated from a number of marine organisms, mostly amongst the Cnidaria and Mollusca, notably in some species of Neptunea (commonly called whelks) that are eaten by humans.