Symmetry in biology Most radially symmetric animals are symmetrical about an axis extending from the center of the oral surface, which contains the mouth to the center of the opposite, , end. Radial symmetry is especially suitable for sessile animals such as the sea anemone, floating animals such as jellyfish, and slow moving organisms such as starfish. Animals in the phyla Cnidaria and Echinodermata are radially symmetric, although many sea anemones and some corals have bilateral symmetry defined by a single structure, the siphonoglyph. Many flowers are radially symmetric or actinomorphic. Roughly identical flower parts – petals, sepals, and stamens – occur at
Bacterial phyla Group A. Two species of the candidate phylum OP10, which is now called Armatimonadetes, where recently cultured: "Armatimonas rosea" isolated from the rhizoplane of a reed in a lake in Japan and "Chthonomonas calidirosea" from an isolate from geothermally heated soil at Hell's Gate, Tikitere, New Zealand. One species, "Caldisericum exile", of the candidate phylum OP5 was cultured, leading to it being named Caldiserica. The candidate phylum VadinBE97 is now known as Lentisphaerae after "Lentisphaera araneosa" and "Victivallis vadensis" were cultured. More recently several candidate phyla have been given provisional names despite the fact that they have no cultured representatives: