- motion,
eating food by engulfment,
reproducing by
fission or budding,
placozoans are
described as "the
simplest animals on Earth."
Structural and molecular...
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Cladtertia is a
genus of
placozoan discovered in 2022. The
genus contains a
single described species,
Cladtertia collaboinventa,
although several other...
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Cladhexea is a
recently created placozoan order comprising yet-undescribed species.
Named in 2022, it is
believed to be
sister to Hoilungea, and corresponds...
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Maculicorpus is a
genus of
fossil placozoan from the
Middle Tri****ic of Germany, and the
first placozoan known from the
fossil record. It
comprises a single...
- jellyfish, and over the
years has been
claimed to be a land-dwelling lichen,
placozoan, or even a
giant protist. Currently, the most po****r interepretation...
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family Trichoplacidae.
Placozoan haplotypes are not
necessarily equivalent to species, and
several haplotypes of the
related placozoan genus Hoilungia have...
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discovered in the
Mediterranean Sea. They
differ greatly from
other species of
placozoans with
regards to
their morphology and
genetic makeup, and have been ranked...
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where complex metazoan life
forms (including the
earliest cnidarians,
placozoans and bilaterians)
first proliferated. The
following time span from 539...
- diploblastic,
having only two main germ layers,
ectoderm and endoderm. The tiny
placozoans have no
permanent digestive chamber and no symmetry; they superficially...
- are
possible other species. The
animal superficially resembles another placozoan,
Trichoplax adhaerens, but
genetically distinct from it as mitochondrial...
