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Eurystomella bilabiata, a moss animal from the Order Cheilostomata.
There are approximately 5,000 living species of bryozoans, which are aquatic invertebrate animals that form colonies of connected units known as zooids. In addition to these extant species, about 15,000 species have been identified through the fossil record.1