What is Starazoa?

November 2, 2009 at 1:43 am #12167

Participant

Hello,

I’m trying to find out what is Starazoa. I been looking around on google and other search engines but it does not appear anywhere.

I think my professor said it was the fifth class of Mollusk, but I’m not sure, as he didn’t want to repeat what he said in class.

If anyone has any idea on what it is and some info on it, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

November 2, 2009 at 1:48 am #94309

TheVirus

Participant

Maybe you mean Staurozoa. That’s a kind of jellyfish.

November 2, 2009 at 1:51 am #94310

TheVirus

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Are you sure it’s Starazoa?

November 2, 2009 at 1:53 am #94311

Venc

Participant

Thanks.

TheVirus – I’m not sure how it is spelled, someone wrote the name for me. But I believe it has to do with the fifth group/phylum/class of an Interbrate, as the chapter in which it was lecture is "Coelomate Invertebrates"

November 2, 2009 at 1:59 am #94312

TheVirus

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Mmm…I’m afraid i don’t really know, then. All i know is about a jellyfish with a similar name, but i’ve no idea what a coelomate is.
Sorry.

November 2, 2009 at 2:04 am #94313

Venc

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quote TheVirus:

Mmm…I’m afraid i don’t really know, then. All i know is about a jellyfish with a similar name, but i’ve no idea what a coelomate is.
Sorry.

I might be confused, as he just named it on the review pretty quickly without much explanation, other than it was the fifth phylum/class of something, which I thought it was Mollusks as he was talking about them.

Thanks for your help, I really needed to know what it was for my exam tomorrow 😀

November 2, 2009 at 2:16 am #94315

TheVirus

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You’re welcome. I wish i could be of any more help.

November 3, 2009 at 6:30 pm #94441

rosalin

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i think you’re really talking about cnidarians belonging to the class staurozoa (also called stauromedusae). these are peculiar because, unlike their fellow cnidarians, staurrozoans are ‘stalked’ & do not enter the medusa stage, spending their entire lives attached to a substrate instead.

try the following & see if that’s what you were looking for:

http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/200 … lucern.php

http://thescyphozoan.ucmerced.edu/Org/J … 04Jun.html

November 3, 2009 at 7:27 pm #94444

TheVirus

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Yeah, that’s what i thought.

November 4, 2009 at 3:34 am #94481

MrMistery

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btw coelomatae just means "that have a coelome", or an internal body cavity. Everything from earthworms up have it

November 14, 2009 at 5:30 am #94846

Chroma

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And if its definitely a coelomate then that would exclude cnidarians…

The only thing I could thing of would be Asteroidea, which is both an invertebrate and coelomate. It doesn’t sound the same but asteroid/star are conceivably confusable.

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