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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As one of the most recently discovered animal phyla, Cycliophora (2) to date comprises only two described species, Symbion pandora Funch and Kristensen, 1995, and S.

Cycliophoran dwarf males break the rule: high complexity with low cell numbers

And since the creature lives with the lobster in symbiosis--a harmonious relationship in which both benefit--scientists named the new species Symbion pandora.

Lobster-lip critter

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.