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Phylum Cnidaria
Photo index of cnidarians on Singapore shores
with soft bodies

Generally solitary polyps
jellyfish and jelly-like
anemones
and anemone-like

Colonies of tiny polyps
thin branching tree-like
sea fans
thin, fern-like
sausage- or stick-like
fluffy, encrusting
fluffy, bushy
leathery
with feathery polyps in a leathery common tissue

how to tell apart



photo index of
cnidarians on this site
Phylum Cnidaria
with hard skeleton

with soft body

solitary
  jellyfish
and jelly-like


anemones
and anemone-like

colonial
  bushy

fern-like

feathery

leathery

stick-like

thin branching
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