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The Growth Stages and Adult Structure of the Lophophore of the Brachiopods Megerlia Truncata (L.) and M. Echinata (Fischer & Oehlert)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. Atkins
D. Atkins
Affiliation:
From the Plymouth Laboratory
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Megerlia truncata and M. echinata dredged by R.V. ‘Sarsia’ have been examined living. The growth stages of the lophophore are described and figured, the series being fuller in M. echinata than in M. truncata. The adult lophophore of M. truncata has been sectioned and its structure described.

The ciliary feeding mechanism in Megerlia is similar to that already described by the author in brachiopods with plectolophous lophophores

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , February 1961 , pp. 95 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1961

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