A zooid is a term for a small individual animal, part of a marine colony. The zooids in a colony are usually clones, and may be cytoplasmically connected...

four kinds of zooids. Zooids are very small, highly modified individuals. All the zooids in a colony are genetically identical. These zooids are specialized...

(~0.2mm) members called zooids. They secrete tubes, usually of lime (CaCO3), sometimes of chitin, an organic compound. The zooids in a colony are all clones...

genetically identical zooids. These zooids are small, highly modified individual polyps. Though structurally similar to other cnidarians, the zooids do not live...

siphonophore. This is a colony of four kinds of zooids. Zooids are very small, highly modified individuals. These zooids are specialized polyps and medusoids. Though...

them live in the sea. Some are colonial, composed of zooids which may be clones. Cnidarian zooids may take the form of polyps or medusae at different phases...

large colonial marine jellyfish. It is composed of many tiny individual zooids, which are specialised polyps and medusae. The colony has an air bladder...

like the byrozoans (moss animals) live in groups of almost microscopic zooids. The first animals in Lophophorata are thought to look a lot like an annelid...

genus isn't just one jellyfish, its a jellyfish made out of thousands of zooids. The members of the genus are sometimes called bluebottles or man o' wars...

plants also reproduce asexually such as by means of runners. The individual zooids in a particular coral or bryozoan are usually genetically identical. They...

oceanic islands. Coral live in colonies. All the polyps in a colony are zooids: they are all clones, genetically identical. Inside the colony they breed...

build calcareous skeletons. They are almost all colonial, and all their zooids are clones. Phoronida: A very small phylum, with 12 species. Live on the...

branches (called stipes) coming from an initial individual. Each subsequent zooid is housed within a tubular or cup-like structure (called a theca). In some...

The Portuguese Man o'War is a colony of four simpler animals, called zooids...

Colonies of tunicate Botrylloides violaceus. Note new zooid buds within colonies and along margins of colonies....