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Lamp Shell
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for animals of the phylum Brachiopoda.
Lamp shells
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Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa.
The valves are, consequently, essentially symmetrical, which is not the case with the Lamellibranchiata, - so much so, that certain Brachiopod shells were named Lampades, or lamp shells, by some early naturalists; ...
Brachiopoda (lamp shells)
Bryozoa (bryozoans, ectoprocts, and moss animals)
Chaetognatha (arrow worms)
Chordata (chordates)
Cnidaria (cnidarians)
Ctenophora (comb jellies)
Cycliophora
Echinodermata (echinoderms)
Entoprocta (entoprocts) ...
The diet of the Steller's Eider includes mollusks, marine worms like bristle worms (polychaetes), sea dollars and other echinoderms, small fish, lamp shells (brachiopods), shrimp-like crustaceans called scuds (amphipods), sow bugs, blue mussels, ...
[21] but it now appears they are paraphyletic,[22] some closer to the Nemertea and some to the Mollusca and Annelida.[23][24] They include the Brachiopoda or lamp shells, which are prominent in the fossil record, the Entoprocta, the Phoronida, ...
 See also: Shell, Mollusk, Bryozoa, Crustacean, Burro
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