Phoronids (scientific name Phoronida, sometimes called horseshoe worms) are a small phylum of marine animals that filter-feed with a lophophore (a "crown" of tentacles), and build upright …

Horseshoe worm, phylum name Phoronida, a small group (about 12 species) of wormlike marine invertebrates that live in tubes secreted by special glands. These protective tubes become …

Mar 4, 2020 · Phoronida (also known as Horseshoe worms) is a very small phylum, containing 11 species of generally small marine worms. They are related to the other lophophorate phyla …

Phoronids (scientific name Phoronida, sometimes called horseshoe worms) are a small phylum of marine animals that filter-feed with a lophophore (a "crown" of tentacles), and build upright …

Oct 7, 2024 · Horseshoe worms, also called phoronids, are a small group of marine organisms included in the phylum Phoronida. They are characterized by a lophophore, a specialized …

Phoronids are suspension feeders, capturing algae, diatoms, flagellates, peridinians, small invertebrate larvae, and detritus from the water by means of the lophophore.

Phoronis is exclusively marine and is found sparingly over a wide geographical range. It lives in sandy bottom in shallow seas. In the adult stage, it is sedentary becomes enclosed by a …

The Phoronida is one of the smallest and least familiar phyla; there are about twelve or so living species in two genera, Phoronis and Phoronopsis. However, phoronids -- or "horseshoe …

The Phoronida, Brachiopoda and Ectoprocta are collectively called the lophophorate coelomates. On the basis of their similarities, these three groups were regarded by earlier Zoologists, …

Apr 29, 2023 · Phoronida is a crucial clade for the understanding of lophophorate evolution. The recent findings on their development, combined with new fossils, allow a reconstruction of how …

Apr 29, 2023 · In this review, I discuss how data on phoronid development, genetics, and morphology can inform our understanding of lophophorate evolution. The actinotrocha larvae …

Jan 1, 2015 · Background: Phoronida is a small group of marine worm-like suspension feeders, which together with brachiopods and bryozoans form the clade Lophophorata.

Phoronids (scientific name Phoronida, sometimes called horseshoe worms) are a small phylum of marine animals that filter-feed with a lophophore (a "crown" of tentacles), and build upright …

Nov 30, 2010 · Several authors have suggested that fossil tubes or tubicolous burrows and borings are trace fossils of Phoronida, and have ascribed them to various ichnogenera, e.g., …

As evident from those examples, Phoronida occupies a central role in the discussion of the evolution of lophophorate body plans and life histories. Keywords: Spiralia; biomineralization; …

Oct 21, 2015 · The Phoronida is a small group of marine invertebrates with a biphasic life cycle. Adult phoronids live in their own tube in hard or soft substrata as benthic animals [ 13 ]. Their …

Phoronids are epibenthic (or infaunal) tubiculous marine invertebrates closely related to brachiopods (and perhaps bryozoans; see Nesnidal et al. (2013)) that have oval, U-shaped, or …

Aug 10, 2021 · Recent research has revealed that the organization of the nervous and muscular systems of the lophophore is similar in phoronids, brachiopods, and bryozoans. At the same …

Apr 22, 2015 · Evolutionary relationships among members of the Lophophorata remain unclear. Traditionally, the Lophophorata included three phyla: Brachiopoda, Bryozoa or Ectoprocta, and …

Jul 31, 2017 · Our results suggest that the ancestral lophophore of all lophophorates had a simple shape but many nerve elements. The Lophophorata has traditionally been considered a …