Definition of Endoprocta

1. Noun. Sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa.

Exact synonyms: Entoprocta, Phylum Entoprocta
Group relationships: Bryozoa, Phylum Bryozoa, Polyzoa
Member holonyms: Entoproct
Generic synonyms: Phylum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endoprocta

End of Cycles
Endamoeba
Endamoeba histolytica
Endamoebidae
Endecott
Enderby Land
Endicott
Endo
Endo's fuchsin agar
Endo's medium
Endo agar
Endodermophyton
Endodontidae
Endoeuropean
Endomyces geotrichum
Endoprocta (current term)
Endothia aspartic proteinase
Ends
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Eneas
Eneid
Eneolithic
Energizer bunny
Energy Department
Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
Energy Secretary
Enesco
Enets
Eng.
Engelbert Humperdinck

Literary usage of Endoprocta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"Endoprocta.* Bryozoa with amis within the circle of tentacles. In the structure of their bodies and the formation of their colonies FIG. ..."

2. Observations on budding in paludicella and some other bryozoa by Charles Benedict Davenport (1891)
"As for regeneration in Endoprocta, no one is more competent to speak ... Relationships of Endoprocta and Ectoprocta. ..."

3. On ürnatella gracilis by Charles Benedict Davenport (1893)
"Admitting that the Endoprocta are more ancestral than the Ectoprocta, I cannot conceive ... For the line connecting mouth and anus is in Endoprocta ventral, ..."

4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (1891)
"One might bu inclined to ask by what modification of the condition of the tentacles in Endoprocta we may suppose the condition in Eeto- ..."

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