Nombre en documento original:
Pocillopora elegans
Diagnosis:
Pocillopora Elegans is a type of marine organism and Pocillopora Genus, the Pocilloporidae Family. It can be further characterized as in the Scleractinia Order in the Hexacorallia Subclass. It forms part of the Anthozoa Class, which is part of the Cnidaria Phylum that is in the Animalia Kingdom. This organism is a type of aquatic animals with cnidocytes to capture prey and a mesoglea jelly-like body i.e. jelly fish..
Pocillopora Elegans is related to or has the following physical characteristics: comprise of colonial polyps with 6-fold symmetry or less., have 6 or fewer lines of symmetry in their body structure, only single rows of tentacles, instead of a medusa stage in their development, they release sperm and eggs that form a planula, which stick to substrates and grow, exclusively aquatic, mostly marine, they have cnidocytes, which are specialized cells used for capturing prey, bodies consist of mesoglea between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick, 2 forms: swimming medusae and sessile polyps, radially symmetrical with mouths surrounded by tentacles that bear cnidocytes, have a single orifice and body cavity used for digestion and respiration, multicellular organism, eukaryote (nucleus and organelles in membrane), body plan becomes fixed eventually, excluding metamorphosis, motile (most species), must ingest another organisms or their product to live
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http://marine-species.web-definition.com/definitions/?scientificname=pocillopora_elegans
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