staurozoan

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noun

Any member of the class Staurozoa; a stalked jellyfish.

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Meanings

nounstaurozoan (plural staurozoans)

plural staurozoans

  1. Any member of the class Staurozoa; a stalked jellyfish.

    The only staurozoan included in our analysis, Haliclystus sanjuanensis (6.5% gene sampling), is the most poorly sampled taxon in our data set (Fig 4 ).

    2015 October 15, “Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From Staurozoa + -an.

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