Lophophorata Temporal range: | |
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Bryozoa | |
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Brachiopod | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
Clade: | Bilateria |
Clade: | Nephrozoa |
Clade: | Protostomia |
Clade: | Spiralia |
Superphylum: | Lophotrochozoa |
Grade: | "Tommotiida" |
Clade: | Lophophorata Meglitsch, 1972 |
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The Lophophorata (also called Tentaculata; not to be confused with Tentaculata Eschscholtz 1825, a class within the Ctenophora) are a Lophotrochozoan clade consisting of the Brachiozoa and the Bryozoa. [2] [3] [4] [5] They have a lophophore. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that lophophorates are protostomes, but on morphological grounds they have been assessed as deuterostomes. [6] Fossil finds of the "tommotiid" Wufengella suggest that they evolved from worm-like animals that resembled annelids. [7] [8]