An associate of the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University studied the nervous system of adult phoronida using modern methods and presented new facts in the long-lasting ...

Hirose M, Fukiage R, Katoh T, Kajihara H (2014) Description and molecular phylogeny of a new species of Phoronis (Phoronida) from Japan, with a redescription of topotypes of P. ijimai Oka, 1897.

Phoronid larvae have an oral hood upstream from a postoral encircling array of ciliated tentacles. Cilia move water over the hood and between the tentacles, from anterior to posterior. When an algal ...