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Entoprocta
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Entoprocta (), or Kamptozoa , commonly called goblet worms, is a phylum of mostly-sessile aquatic animals, ranging from long. Mature individuals are goblet-shaped, on relatively long stalks. They have a "crown" of solid tentacles whose cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth, and both the mouth and anus lie inside the "crown". The superficially similar Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) have the anus outside a "crown" of hollow tentacles. Most families of entoprocts are colonial, and all but 2 of the 150 species are marine. A few solitary species can move slowly.
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Entoprocta is a phylum within the kingdom Animalia, commonly known as entoprocts. The taxon was described by Nitsche in 1869 and holds an accepted status in biological classification. It encompasses organisms found in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats.
Records for this phylum are held by several institutions, including SIO, CAS, USNM, and NCSM. These records originate from countries such as Costa Rica, the United States, Antarctica, Pakistan, and New Zealand. The subject has 8,070 occurrences and 105 records, with 79 associated media items.
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Species
entoprocts
Entoprocta
PHYLUM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEntoprocta
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 105
- With media
- 79
- Collections
- SIO, CAS, USNM, NCSM
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, United States, Antarctica, Pakistan, New Zealand, Mexico, Chile
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- invertebrate
- Parent taxon
- Spiralia
- Image
- Barentsa discreta suzukokemusi02.jpg
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- taxon name
- Entoprocta
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- Entoprocta
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- taxon common name
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Names
- Description
- Distinguishing features
- Zooids
- Vegetative functions
- Reproduction and life cycle
- Taxonomy
- Evolutionary history
- Fossil record
- Family tree
- Ecology
- Distribution and habitats
- Interaction with other organisms
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Entoprocta (), or Kamptozoa , commonly called goblet worms, is a phylum of mostly-sessile aquatic animals, ranging from long. Mature individuals are goblet-shaped, on relatively long stalks. They have a "crown" of solid tentacles whose cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth, and both the mouth and anus lie inside the "crown". The superficially similar Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) have the anus outside a "crown" of hollow tentacles. Most families of entoprocts are colonial, and all but 2 of the 150 species are marine. A few solitary species can move slowly.
Some species eject unfertilized ova into the water, while others keep their ova in brood chambers until they hatch, and some of these species use placenta-like organs to nourish the developing eggs. After hatching, the larvae swim for a short time and then settle on a surface. There they metamorphose, and the larval gut rotates by up to 180°, so that the mouth and anus face upwards. Both colonial and solitary species also reproduce by cloning — solitary species grow clones in the space between the tentacles and then release them when developed, while colonial ones produce new members from the stalks or from corridor-like stolons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Entoprocta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.