Pterobranchia is a clade of small worm-shaped animals. They belong to the hemichordata, and live in secreted tubes on the ocean floor. Pterobranchia feed by filtering plankton out of the water with the help of cilia attached to tentacles. There are about 30 known living species in the group. The class Pterobranchia was established by Ray Lankester...
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• (n. pl.) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.
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Pter`o·bran'chi·a noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... a wing + ... ....]
(Zoology) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also
Podostomata . See
Rhabdopleura .
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