#phoronid

[revretch]

I want everyone to appreciate the hypothetical predator from this paper about phoronids. (The illustration is showing a wormlike phoronid ancestor hiding in the sand and evolving into a sessile animal, to avoid the predator. I appreciate that you can see the little face peeking out!)

Metamorphic remodeling of morphology and the body cavity in Phoronopsis harmeri (Lophotrochozoa, Phoronida): the evolution of the phoronid b

Background Phoronids undergo a remarkable metamorphosis, in which some parts of the larval body are consumed by the juvenile and the body pl

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate...................phoronis australis

he makes really tiny marble sculptures and ornaments with nice fortunes written on them. they're very great trinkets and I highly recommend giving some to a friend or significant other as a representation of your love for their existence¡¡

but if you ever see how he makes them you'd never want to touch them or look at them again so for your safety I'm not going to tell you how they're made. all you need to know is that it does NOT involve his luscious swirly lophophores. those are merely for show

glorpiness rating: venineth

photographed by Chaloklum Diving (CC BY 3.0)

it kinda looks like it has a face lol

[splashing-water]

phoronid

[zoologyverse]

PHORONIDA - STRUCTURE, AFFINITY AND LIFE HISTORY

INTRODUCTION Phoronida are long and thin worm like organisms.  All phoronids reproduce sexually. Some of them are hermaphrodite while other aredioecious. Fertilization is internal as well as external. Intermediate larval stage is present. This species generally live in coastline of mostly all oceans and seas except the Antarctic ocean. Phoronids are generally algae feeder and small animal larvae…

PHORONIDA - STRUCTURE, AFFINITY AND LIFE HISTORY

[scientificillustration]

Phoronis par Marc de Selys-Longchamps ; herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel.

"Phoronids (scientific name Phoronida, sometimes called horseshoe worms) are a phylum of marine animals that filter-feed with a lophophore (a "crown" of tentacles), and build upright tubes of chitin to support and protect their soft bodies."

[scientificillustration]

Phoronis architecta : its life history, anatomy and breeding habits / by William Keith Brooks and Rheinart Parker Cowles.

This species is now called Phoronis psammophila Cori, 1889. The larva has a different name: Actinotrocha sabatieri.

[scientificillustration]

Phoronis par Marc de Selys-Longchamps ; herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel.

This isn't a dancing alien but a Phoronid or horseshoe worm