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Definition of Pennatulidae
1. Noun. Sea pens.
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Family
Group relationships: Alcyonaria, Order Alcyonaria
Member holonyms: Genus Pennatula, Pennatula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennatulidae
Literary usage of Pennatulidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"An epithelium also covers the surface of the axis in Pennatulidae but its origin
is uncertain'. The horny sheaths of the spicules, like the spicules ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"... are short and the pinnules are small and inconspicuous, in the Pennatulidae the
... is derived from the Pennatulidae by suppression of the peduncle, ..."
3. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"... they may be arranged side by side, their lateral surfaces fusing in the form
of a leaf-like plate, as in the Pennatulidae (Fig. 5 2). ..."
4. The Fauna of the Deep Sea by Sydney John Hickson (1894)
"Pennatulidae. The first three of these divisions principally inhabit the shallow
... The Pennatulidae are regarded by naturalists as the most complicated or ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"... the Natural History of the Pennatulidae living on the Norwegian coast;
Description of new Bryozoa; Contributions to the Natural History of the Norwegian ..."
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