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n. - Hydras.

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  • This unusual creature is not actually a fish, but an invertebrate from the Coelenterate phylum (the same phylum as coral, also called Cnidaria).
  • Cnidaria pronounced with a silent c is a phylum containing over 9,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic, mostly marine, environments.
  • Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms.
  • The book also uses the archaic term "Coelenterata" as a phylum comprising the subphyla Cnidaria (jellyfish and anemones) and Ctenophora (sea gooseberries).
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