Symbion
Phylum of microscopic organisms that are commensal with lobsters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the term 'symbiont', see Symbiosis. For the US power company, see Symbion Power.
Symbion is a genus of commensal aquatic animals, less than 0.5 mm wide, found living attached to the mouthparts of cold-water lobsters. They have sac-like bodies, and three distinctly different forms in different parts of their two-stage life-cycle. They appear so different from other animals that they were assigned their own, new phylum Cycliophora shortly after they were discovered in 1995.[1] This was the first new phylum of multicelled organism to be discovered since the Loricifera in 1983.
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Symbion pandora | |
Symbion americanus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Superphylum: | Lophotrochozoa |
Phylum: | Cycliophora Funch & Kristensen, 1995 |
Class: | Eucycliophora Funch & Kristensen, 1995 |
Order: | Symbiida Funch & Kristensen, 1995 |
Family: | Symbiidae Funch & Kristensen, 1995 |
Genus: | Symbion Funch & Kristensen, 1995 |
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