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Apometamera

animal phylum

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annotated classification

  • Fallow deer (Dama dama)
    In animal: Annotated classification

    Phylum ApometameraUnsegmented worms; food-gathering proboscis with cilia below or in tentacles; sedentary tube dwellers; metanephridia; marine; filter feeders; Devonian to recent; 400 species.Phylum PhoronidaWormlike; sedentary in chitinous tube; lophophore; closed circulatory system; metanephridia; marine; filter feeders; Devonian? to recent; 15

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phylogeny

  • Fallow deer (Dama dama)
    In animal: Appearance of animals

    The Apometamera show traces of segmentation in the Echiura but none in the overall more-derived Sipuncula. Apometamera are also annelid relatives but may be even closer to mollusks. They lack useful fossils, unless the tube-forming Hyolitha, which may alternatively be annelids or a separate phylum and…

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