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Cnidarians

Cnidaria

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Cnidaria (Cnidarians) is a group of animals. There are 11791 species of cnidarians, in 1791 genera and 355 families. This group has been around since the ediacaran period. They includes groups like Myxozoans, Box Jellyfish, and Stalked Jellyfish. They are carnivores.

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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EOL has data for 20 attributes, including:

eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Ediacaran Period
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Ediacaran
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region
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Mozambique
- URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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marine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000447
- Definition: An aquatic biome that comprises systems of open-ocean and unprotected coastal habitats, characterized by exposure to wave action, tidal fluctuation, and ocean currents as well as systems that largely resemble these. Water in the marine biome is generally within the salinity range of seawater: 30 to 38 ppt.
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Diplodus cadenati de la Paz, Bauchot & Daget 1974 (Moroccan white seabream)
number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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66388
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002439
- Definition: An interaction relationship involving a predation process, where the subject kills the target in order to eat it or to feed to siblings, offspring or group members
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Epimeria (Laevepimeria) walkeri (K. H. Barnard 1930)
preys on
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002439
- Definition: An interaction relationship involving a predation process, where the subject kills the target in order to eat it or to feed to siblings, offspring or group members
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Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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carnivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
- Attribution: Crustacean body sizes
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water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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2100 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of cnidarians. View this species on GBIF

cnidarians Habitats

The environments in which many cnidarians species are known to live. Select an environment to see its cnidarians species checklist.

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Cnidarian Habitats

The environments in which many cnidarians species are known to live. Select an environment to see its cnidarians species checklist.

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