Symbion pandora

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Symbion pandora - only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases

invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification

Cycliophora, phylum Cycliophora - tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta

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Cycliophora invertebrate phylum Cycliophora			Symbion pandora probably has many undiscovered relatives, says Simon Conway Morris, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge in England. Lobster-lip critter by Ehrenpreis, Yael / Science World According to various articles, when Symbion Pandora is ready to have a baby, its digestive system "collapses and is reconstituted into a larva," which the parent then gives birth to by "extruding" it from its "posterior. HUMOR\If you only knew where those lobsters have been .. by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) They have named the creature Symbion pandora and have assigned it to an entirely new phylum, which they call Cycliophora. New phylum found residing on lobsters by Adler, Tina / Science News			sylvatic Sylvester II Sylvestrian Sylvia Sylvia communis Sylvia curruca Sylvia Plath Sylvian aqueduct Sylvian fissure Sylvic Sylvicoline sylviculture Sylviculturist Sylviidae Sylviinae Sylvilagus Sylvilagus aquaticus Sylvilagus floridanus Sylvilagus palustris Sylvine sylvite sym- sym. Symar Symbal Symbion pandora symbiont symbiosis symbiote symbiotic symbiotically symbol symbol retailer symbol-worship symbolaeography symbolatry symbolic symbolic language symbolic logic symbolic logician symbolic representation symbolical symbolical books Symbolical delivery Symbolical philosophy symbolically Symbolics symbolisation symbolise symboliser symbolising			SYMAPS Symar SYMB SYMBAL SYMBAL symballophone symballophone Symbalta Symbian Symbian Symbian Developer Library Symbian Installation System Symbian Operating System Symbian OS Symbian Tower Battles Symbian^1 Symbian^2 Symbian^3 Symbiant Symbiant Symbiant Symbiant Symbiant SYMBIO Symbiodinium Symbiogenesis symbion symbion symbion symbion Symbion pandora Symbionese Liberation Army Symbionese Liberation Army Symbionese Liberation Army/Archive1 Symbionics Systems Ltd. symbiont symbiont symbiont symbiont symbiont symbiontic symbiontic symbiontic Symbionts Symbionts Symbionts Symbionts Symbionts symbioses symbioses symbioses symbioses symbioses symbiosis symbiosis symbiosis symbiosis symbiosis Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development

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