This Wonderful World
/ Zoophytes These strange and picturesque formations ar zoophytes. The word is derived from the Gree ZOOTI, " an animal," and phytOTl, " a plant," s that the term signifies " animal-plant.*' Thi designation was employed by the naturalist Cuvier, in his earlier attempts at classificatioi of numerous simple animals with a superficia resemblance to plant growths.
in general are invertebrate animals, whose appearance and mode of growth closel/ resemble that of a plant, sea-anemones, corals and sponges being among the best-known examples of this curious form of life. Zoophytes always live in colonies, and the variety shown in the illustration, highly magnified, is a type whose method of living is to line the mouths of shells occupied by hermit crabs. A -
They provide another illustration of the interesting fact revealed by a close study of natural history, aided by the microscope, that, no matter how low the *■' form of life, there always seems to be some still smaller and lower form of life preying or living upon it I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 30 (Supplement)
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169This Wonderful World New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 30 (Supplement)
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