A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Zoophyton,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. zoophyto: zoophyte,a member of the Zoophyta (pl.n.II): “a plant resembling an animal; 2. any of numerous invertebrate animals (as a coral, gorgonian, sea anemone, hydroid, bryozoan, or sponge) more or less resembling plants in appearance or mode of growth; esp. one (as many corals and hydroids) that forms a branching arborescent colony attached to a substrate” (WIII);

- [algae] Hab. inter spongias et zoophyta in cavernis obscurioribus et ad saxa maris pròfundioris Mediterranei atque Adriatici frequenter (Agardh), it grows frequently among sponges and zoophytes in the darker caverns and on pm stpnes of the deeper sea of the Mediterranean and also of the Adriatic.

- [icon] ad modicum lentis augmentum seorsim pictum, pro Zoophyto item habendum sex brachiis instructo (l. c. fasc. 1. pag. 51 )! et similia plurima (S&A), [illustration), at a moderate augmentation [i.e. magnification] of the lens, drawn separately, provided with six arms, also taken for a Zoophyte and very many similar things.

Zoophyta,-orum (pl.n.II) “in former classifications: an extensive artifical and heterogeneous group of invertebrates mostly incapable of locomotion that commonly includes all or many of the forms distinguished as coelenterates, sponges, bryozoans, echinoderms, protozoans, and worms but is sometimes restricted to coelenterates and sponges or to anthozoans along” (WIII).

Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741-1811

https://www.biodiversitylibrary/creator/469 Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis.

ALCYONIDlUM,-ii (s.n.II), Agardh. [A genus] So called, from Halkioneion, the foam of the sea, among which the plants referred to this genus are naturally produced. Linn. 24, Or. 7, Nat. Or. Diatomaceae. This also is supposed to be the nidus of some aninialculae [sic]. Lamouroux, who originally, fixed it here, afterwards referred it to Zoophytes; in which last opinion Gaillon agrees with him, declaring that he has actually seen the animalculae nestling in it. D'Orbigny and Ellis consider it the ova of a testaceous animal: A. defractum, A. diaphanum, A. flavescens (Paxton); see animalcule.