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Phoronis is one of the two genera of the horseshoe worm family (), in the phylum Phoronida.The body has two sections, each with its own coelom.There is a specialist feeding structure, the lophophore, which is an extension of the wall of the coelom and is surrounded by tentacles.
Santagata thinks Phoronis architecta is a different species from both Phoronis psammophila and Phoronis muelleri, and that "[the phoronids'] species diversity is currently underestimated". [61] In 2009 Temereva described what may be larvae of Phoronopsis albomaculata and Phoronopsis californica. She wrote that, while there are 12 undisputed ...
Phoronis australis is a species of marine horseshoe worm in the phylum Phoronida.It is found in shallow warm-temperate and tropical waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific region and was first detected in the Mediterranean Sea in the late twentieth century.
Phoronis psammophila is a species of marine horseshoe worm in the phylum Phoronida. It lives in a tube projecting from the sea floor in shallow seas around the world ...
Phoronis muelleri is a species of marine horseshoe worm in the phylum Phoronida. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Like most phoronids, Phoronis muelleri has a biphasic life-cycle consisting of a pelagic larval stage, the actinotrocha, and a benthic, sessile adult stage.
Phoronis ovalis is a species of marine horseshoe worm in the phylum Phoronida. It is found in shallow waters in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, Argentina, and other scattered locations worldwide. These worms secrete a tube into which they can retreat, and burrow into the shells of molluscs. [2]
Phoronis is a genus of the horseshoe worm family (Phoronidae), in the phylum Phoronida. Phoronis may also refer to: Various species in the above genus: Phoronis australis; Phoronis ovalis; Phoronis psammophila; Phoronis (c. 7th-6th c. BC), an ancient Greek epic poem which told the story of the mythological hero Phoroneus.
Phoronis pallida is a species of marine horseshoe worm in the phylum Phoronida, [2] [3] and the second smallest species. [4]