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Pogonophora (phylum)


Identification code: 300310249



Alternative term/s

  • beardworm
  • beardworms
  • pogonophorans
  • pogonophores

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Scope note:

Phylum of marine invertebrates that live a sedentary life in long, protective tubes on seafloors throughout the world and often possessing a beard-like mass of feather-like tentacles at the anterior end. An intestine, which forms in embryos, disappears as development progresses; they are the only multicellular animals that have neither mouth nor anus.

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