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Pterobranchia
AphiaID: 1819

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Hemichordata (Phylum)

Authority

Lankester, 1877

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Accepted name

Graptolithoidea

Rank

Class

Parent

Hemichordata

Sources

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	pterobranchs	[details]
English	sea angels	[details]
Swedish	fjädermaskar	[details]

Direct child
taxa

Family Atubaridae

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Links

To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank
To The Pterobranchia of the Siboga Expedition (Harmer, 1905)
To ITIS

Notes

Classification: When originally discovered in the 1800s, many pterobranchs were initially classified as bryozoans or other organisms. [details]

Habitat: Many pterobranch species have been found in Antarctic regions and colder waters, but they have also been found in warmer waters at lower latitudes. [details]

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1819

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	db_admin
2006-04-13 11:07:58Z	changed	van der Land, Jacob
2011-08-31 21:00:22Z	changed	Konikoff, Charlotte
2011-09-09 16:41:14Z	changed	Konikoff, Charlotte

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Citation: Konikoff, C.; van der Land, J. (2013). Pterobranchia. In: Shenkar, N; Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2013) Hemichordata World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1819 on 2013-05-22

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