Definition of Rhabdopleura. Meaning of Rhabdopleura. Synonyms of Rhabdopleura

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Definition of Rhabdopleura

Rhabdopleura
Rhabdopleura Rhab`do*pleu"ra, n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + ???? the side.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

Meaning of Rhabdopleura from wikipedia

- Rhabdopleura is a genus of colonial sessile hemichordates belonging to the Pterobranchia class. As one of the oldest living genera with a fossil record...
- pterobranch Rhabdopleura represents an extant graptolite which diverged from the rest of the group in the Cambrian. Fossil graptolites and Rhabdopleura share...
- Lankester in 1877. It contained, at that time, the single genus Rhabdopleura. Rhabdopleura was at first regarded as an aberrant polyzoon, but when the Challenger...
- Rhabdopleura normani is a small, marine species of worm-shaped animal known as a pterobranch. It is a sessile suspension feeder, lives in clear water,...
- placed within the pterobranchs, represented by a single living genus Rhabdopleura. Acorn worms are solitary worm-shaped organisms. They generally live...
- Rhabdopleura recondita is a sessile hemichordate. It is a suspension feeder that secretes tubes on the ocean floor. It is found in the Adriatic and Ionian...
- Rhabdopleura striata is a sessile hemichordate. It is a suspension feeder that secretes tubes on the ocean floor. The zooids are dark brown. Rhabdopleura...
- Rhabdopleura compacta is a sessile hemichordate. It is a suspension feeder that secretes tubes on the ocean floor. Unlike all other Rhabdopleura species...
- species live in a secreted coenecium attached to a rock substrate. Unlike Rhabdopleura, Cephalodiscus species do not form large colonies and are only pseudocolonial...
- Rhabdopleura annulata is a sessile hemichordate. It is a suspension feeder that secretes tubes on the ocean floor. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region...