Loose Leaf For Integrated Principles Of Zoology
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ISBN: 9781260411140
Author: Cleveland P Hickman Jr. Emeritus, Susan L. Keen, David J Eisenhour Professor PhD, Allan Larson, Helen I'Anson Associate Professor of Biology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The factors that support the placement of Brachiopoda and Phoronida in sister taxa.
Introduction: The three phyla- Phoronida, Ectoprocta, and Brachiopoda- possess a crown of ciliated tentacles, called a lophophore that they use in food capture and respiration. Brachiopods were abundant in the Paleozoic era but began to decline thereafter.
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