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cryptocyst (noun; Greek kryptos, hidden; kystis, bladder): (Bryozoa: Gymnolaemata) 1. One of the two basic wall morphologies of bryozoans consisting of wholly interior walls, leaving a superficial hypostegal coelom uniting contiguous zooids

See also: gymnocyst. 2. A calcareous plate that functions as a hydrostatic organ in Cheilostomata.