Phylactolaemata is a class of bryozoans, within the phylum Bryozoa, whose members live only in freshwater. Like other bryozoans they filter feed with an extensible crown of ciliated tentacles called a lophophore and live in colonies of cloned zooids, but unlike many marine bryozoans their colonies consist of only one kind of zooid, the feeding autozooids, supported by an unmineralized gelatinous or protein exoskeleton. The class contains a single living order, Plumatellida.
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Living or Extinct Taxonomic Rank Connections
Parent Taxon Of
Source Wikidata: Pectinatella magnifica
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ4173968, descriptionView the Source 2. Wikipedia: Phylactolaemata
- Taxonomic rank (Wikipedia confirms the entity; rank from slug/structure-wave classification)
In Group: Bryozoan Classes, Lead
Phylactolaemata is a class of the phylum Bryozoa whose members live only in freshwater environments.
View the SourceWikidata: Phylactolaemata
Wikidata Q4173968, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikidata: Pectinatella magnifica
Parent Taxon Of: Pectinatella magnifica, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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