Cnidaria
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 320 cnidarian specimens and models. These date from 1870 to 2007. This collection contains around 170 dried corals from all over the world, including a small collection of deep-sea corals from British waters collected by DL Burkel in the 1970s. There are approximately 100 cnidarians in spirit, which include sea anemones, sea pens, hydroids and corals from around the British coast. A further 40 microscope slides of cnidarians include sections of Gorgonia, Obelia, Hydrozoans and Alcyonium. The collection also holds several cnidarian models, which include recent plastic models made for display and glass Blaschka models from the Mason collection. Supporting material includes detailed collection notes for many of the deepwater corals from British seas collected in the 1970s. Cnidarians, of which there are approximately 9,000 species worldwide, are aquatic animals and include corals, jellyfish, sea anemones and hydroids. They are generally either free swimming (medusae) or sessile (polyps). All have stinging tentacles that are used to capture prey.
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