珊瑚状动物

Sponges, finger coral, sea fans, and brain coral give shape and color to this reef.

海绵动物，指状珊瑚，海扇，和脑珊瑚给形状和颜色到这个暗礁。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

以细长的珊瑚为食物，一只长1.7英寸（4.3厘米）半透明的 Phyllodesmium iriomotense 就像那些断肢求生动物一样，如果受到攻击的话，它的枝状消化腺会收回到触手形的裸鳃中。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

一条1.7英寸（4.3厘米）长的学名为&Phyllodesmium iriomotense&的透明海蛤蝓专门以这种柳珊瑚为食，它的枝状消化腮可以缩藏到触手状的裸腮中，这一演化结果类似那些遇到攻击靠断尾蜕皮保命的动物。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

专门以这种细长的柳珊瑚为食，一只半透明的1.7英寸（4.3厘米）长的&Phyllodesmium iriomotense&将其分枝状的消化腺退入触手一样的裸腮中——一旦受到攻击，这种动物就会退到其中避难。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

以珊瑚为食、半透明、1.7英寸（4.3厘米）长的 Phyllodesmium iriomotense 在受到攻击时，会把它枝状的消化腺缩回到触手中——就像那些断肢求生的动物。

Any of various invertebrate animals of the phylum Coelenterata,characterized by a radially symmetrical body with a saclike internal cavity,and including the jellyfishes,hydras,sea anemones,and coral s.

腔肠动物一种腔肠动物门的无脊椎动物，特征是有囊状腔的辐射对称体，包括水母、水螅、海葵和珊瑚

Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.

放射状对称的动物，囊状身体覆有刺样结构的触须，只有一个开口；它们以珊瑚和水母的形式出现。

After the Precambrian Era, such marine invertebrate animal as trilobites, achiopods, nautiloids, horn corals, honeycomb corals and twiglike bryozoans were abundant during the Palaeozoic Era.

在前寒武纪之后的古生代，是无脊椎动物的繁衍时期，例如三叶虫、腕足类、头足类、角状珊瑚、蜂巢珊瑚和苔藓动物。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。