Bryozoa (kent as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss ainimals forby)[6] are a phylum o aquatic invertebrate ainimals.

Bryozoa
Temporal range: Early Ordovician – Recent[1][2]
"Bryozoa", frae Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Clade: Lophophorata
[4]
Phylum: Bryozoa
Ehrenberg, 1831[3]
Synonyms

Ectoprocta (Nitsche, 1869) (umwhile subphylum o Bryzoa)[5]

References eedit

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