Biology:Lingula anatina
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| Lingula anatina from Stradbroke Island, Australia. | |
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| Family: | Lingulidae
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| Species: | L. anatina
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| Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801
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Lingula anatina is a brachiopod species in the genus Lingula. Like others in its genus, L. anatina is a filter feeder that uses a lophophore to extract food from water. They burrow in the sand of their brackish intertidal habitat.[1]
References
- ↑ Temereva, Elena N.; Tsitrin, Eugeni B. (2015-04-22). Hejnol, Andreas. ed. "Modern Data on the Innervation of the Lophophore in Lingula anatina (Brachiopoda) Support the Monophyly of the Lophophorates". PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science (PLoS)) 10 (4): e0123040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123040. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 25901745.
Wikidata ☰ Q13919752 entry
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