A large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed.
1 Now, throughout this sub-division of the Actinozoa phosphorescence is a very general phenomenon.
2 Huxley's Actinozoa comprised the sea-anemones, corals and sea-pens, on the one hand, and the Ctenophora on the other.
3 Shunting " Actinozoa " to "Coelenterata" would do no harm, and would have the great merit of letting me breathe a little.
4 But if you think better that " Actinozoa " should come in its place under A, I will try what I can do.
5 He suggests at once that "Hydrozoa" and " Actinozoa , " in his list, should be dealt with by the writer of the article "Coelenterata."]
6 (Others were " Actinozoa , " "Amphibia," "Animal Kingdom," and "Biology.")
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