Rhabdopleurida

Rhabdopleura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Hemichordata
Class: Pterobranchia
Order: Rhabdopleurida
Family: Rhabdopleuridae
Genus: Rhabdopleura
Allman, 1869
Species

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Rhabdopleurida is one of three orders in the class Pterobranchia, which are small, worm-shaped animals. Members belong to the hemichordates.[1][2] Species in this order are sessile, colonial, living in clear water and secrete tubes called coenecium. Rhabdopleura is the best studied pterobranchs in developmental biology.[3] Some claim Rhabdopleura is an extant graptolite.[4][5]

Taxonomy

This small order is monotypic. It has only a single genus, containing four to six species.

Order Rhabdopleurida

References

  1. Animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu
  2. Eol.org
  3. Sato, A; Bishop JDD; Holland PWH (2008). "Developmental biology of pterobranch hemichordates: history and perspectives". Genesis 46 (11): 587–91. doi:10.1002/dvg.20395. PMID 18798243.
  4. Sato, A; Rickards, RB; Holland PWH (2008). "The origins of graptolites and other pterobranchs: a journey from ‘Polyzoa’". Lethaia 41: 303–316. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00123.x.
  5. Mitchell, Charles E.; Michael J. Melchin; Chris B. Cameron; Jörg Maletz (2012). "Phylogenetic analysis reveals that Rhabdopleura is an extant graptolite". Lethaia. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2012.00319.x. ISSN 0024-1164.
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