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Thread for animals called bryozoa. Post pictures and interesting facts about them.

In picrel is one of those animals and although it looks disgusting it can apparently make water clearer in ponds and lakes by eating plant plankton.
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>these are lophotrocozoans
I'd always assumed they were just some sort of weird freshwater coral
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>>5145783
Goddamnit now I’m on another /an/ Wikipedia reading kick. Interesting critter though.
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>>5145783
Heard of them, but they feel alien to me, what exactly is their experience of the world, how do they feel, how could they? They confuse me. Which is good. It's fun.
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>>5145783
Strange bastards, never really learned anything about them unfortunately
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>>5145783
These things always coat every surface around some of my fishing places.
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>>5145783
They will be the next great reef-builders. I just know it.
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>>5145783
are these those weird mind hive creatures like there's a trillion of them but they're all specializedi nto different sections and form a whole functioning creature colony thing
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>>5146456
Salt and brackish water ones, yes. Evidently the freshwater ones in op are a single unified type



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