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Trichoplax adhaerens
Trichoplax adhaerens
Description The enigmatic phylum Placozoa is the only animal phylum harboring a single species, Trichoplax adhaerens (live photograph of an adult specimen), only. New genetic methods, however, have revealed that this phylum indeed harbor more than 100 to 200 yet undescribed species. This case of under-represented diversity in a phylum is unique. These animals are of particular importance to systematics and evolution since they might represent the ancestors of all other metazoans. Author Schierwater, Bernd JPG file - 310.03 kB - 800 x 537 pixels added on 2009-07-2910 827 viewsERMS taxa Trichoplax adhaerens Schulze, 1883checked Schierwater, Bernd 2009-07-29 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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