Brachiopod

Brachiopod
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian–Recent
Lingula anatina frae Stradbroke Island, Australie
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Clade: Lophophorata
Clade: Brachiozoa
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Duméril, 1806
Diversity
Aboot 100 leevin genera.
Aboot 5,000 fossil genera.

Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, is a group o lophotrochozoan ainimals that haes haurd "tobies" (sherls) on the upper an lawer surfaces, unlik the left an richt ootset in bivalve molluscs.

References

  1. ↑ Zvyagintsev etc: Brachio fouling & (2007).
  2. ↑ Cohen: Brachiopoda ELS & (2002).