'Lophenteropneust' hypothesis refuted by collection and photos of new deep-sea hemichordates

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7031, 2005, Pages 374-376

  Holland, Nicholas D ^a   Clague, David A ^b   Gordon, Dennis P ^c   Gebruk, Andrey ^d   Pawson, David L ^e   Vecchione, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY;

DEAP-SEA HEMICHORDATES; LOPHENTEROPNEUST HYPOTHESIS; SEA FLOORS; TENTACLES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION;

ARTICLE; DEEP SEA; LOPHENTEROPNEUST; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WORM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA;

ENTEROPNEUSTA; HEMICHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; PTEROBRANCHIA; VERTEBRATA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEAWATER;

EID: 15244349066     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03382     Document Type: Article

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