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Balanoglossus
Sign in to saveBalanoglossus is a genus of ocean-dwelling acorn worms. It has zoological importance because, being hemichordates, they are an "evolutionary link" between invertebrates and vertebrates. Balanoglossus specimens are deuterostomes, and resemble the chordates in that they possess branchial openings.
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Vinony's link graph records 18 inbound references to Balanoglossus, and connects out to Chordata, Hemichordata and Enteropneusta.
Vinony files it under Acorn worms and Hemichordate genera.
Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
オオギボシムシ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumHemichordata
- ClassEnteropneusta
- OrderEnteropneusta incertae sedis
- FamilyPtychoderidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 199
- With media
- 14
- Family
- Ptychoderidae
- Collections
- USNM, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States, French Polynesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ptychoderidae
- Image
- Enteropneusta.png
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- Commons category
- Balanoglossus
- taxon name
- Balanoglossus
- taxon rank
- genus
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Classification
- Habitat
- Species
- References
Balanoglossus is a genus of ocean-dwelling acorn worms. It has zoological importance because, being hemichordates, they are an "evolutionary link" between invertebrates and vertebrates. Balanoglossus specimens are deuterostomes, and resemble the chordates in that they possess branchial openings.
Their heads are between 2.5 mm (1/10 in) and 5 mm (1/5 in) wide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balanoglossus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.