Entoprocta, also called Kamptozoa and commonly known as goblet worms, is a phylum of mostly sessile aquatic animals ranging from 0.1 to 7 millimeters long. Mature individuals are goblet-shaped and sit on relatively long stalks, with a crown of solid tentacles whose cilia draw food particles toward the mouth; both the mouth and anus lie inside this crown, distinguishing entoprocts from the superficially similar bryozoans, whose anus lies outside a crown of hollow tentacles. Most entoproct families are colonial, and all but two of the phylum's 150 species are marine, though a few solitary species can move slowly.
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Source Wikipedia: EntoproctaDistribution: White SeaQuote, Distribution: White Sea
In the White Sea, the non-colonial entoproct Loxosomella nordgaardi prefers to live attached to bryozoan (ectoproct) colonies, mainly on the edges of colonies or in the "chimneys", gaps by which large bryozoan colonies expel water from which they have sieved food.
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1. Wikidata: Entoprocta
- Wikidata Q208580, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikipedia 'Entoproct': cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth
- Child Taxon Of: Spiralia, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon)
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Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ208580, descriptionView the Source 4. Wikipedia: Entoprocta
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Entoprocta
In Biome: Marine, Article text: "Most families of entoprocts are colonial, and al"
Most families of entoprocts are colonial, and all but 2 of the 150 species are marine.
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