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Pterobranchia
Pterobranchia Pter`o*bran"chi*a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a wing + ? ?.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.
Pterobranchia
Bryozoa Bry`o*zo"a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? moss + ? animal.] (Zo["o]l.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa. Note: They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, and Pterobranchia. See Cyclostoma, Chilostoma, and Phylactolema.

Meaning of Pterobranch from wikipedia

- Pterobranchia, members of which are often called pterobranchs, is a class of small worm-shaped animals. They belong to the Hemichordata, and live in secreted...
- Middle Cambrian. Recent analyses have favored the idea that the living pterobranch Rhabdopleura represents an extant graptolite which diverged from the...
- Graptolithina, formerly considered extinct, is now placed within the pterobranchs, represented by a single living genus Rhabdopleura. Acorn worms are solitary...
- Mid Cambrian fossil Rhabdotubus johanssoni has been interpreted as a pterobranch hemichordate. Opinions differ about whether the Chengjiang fauna fossil...
- the only living genus of graptolites. Rhabdopleura is the best studied pterobranch in developmental biology. Research in the 2010s by Jörg Maletz and other...
- Mid Cambrian fossil Rhabdotubus johanssoni has been interpreted as a pterobranch hemichordate, whereas Spartobranchus is an acorn-worm from the Burgess...
- the collar has two tentaculated arms. Rhabdopleura is the best studied pterobranch in developmental biology. This small order is monotypic. It has only...
- sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. It is the only pterobranch species with funnel-shaped tubaria. Emig, C.C. (1977). On a new species...
- pterobranchs are hemichordates and probably closely related to echinoderms, and there is no evidence that the latest common ancestor of pterobranchs and...
- The Lower-Middle Cambrian animal Rhabdotubus is the earliest known pterobranch. It bears strong similarity to the graptolites - indeed for some time it...