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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">Pogonophora</topic></authority><related type="broader"><topic>Animalia</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>beardworm</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>beardworms</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>pogonophorans</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>pogonophores</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></note></mads>