Species Profile
Obelia
Sea fur / Sea moss
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassHydrozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Obelia lives attached to rocks in seas.
Colonial and carnivorous.
Important for life-cycle studies.
Size & Structure
01
Branching colonies
02
Hydranths and gonangia present
03
Transparent body
Obelia — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Chitinous perisarc
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator of zooplankton
Marine food chain component
Economic Importance
Academic importance
Used to study metagenesis