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Cycliophora
Emblow, C.S. (2001). Cycliophora, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 177
In: Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R.J. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp., more
In: Collection Patrimoines Naturels. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris. ISSN 1158-422X

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    Cycliophora [WoRMS]
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Abstract
    Cycliophorans are the most recently discovered animal phyla (Funch & Kristensen 1995). They are minute sessile organisms that live on the mouthparts of the Dublin Bay prawn or Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus.

    A lack of morphological data has made the true phylogenetic relationship of Cycliophora difficult to determine, however examination of its ribosomal RNA (Winnepenninckx et al. 1998) has revealed a close relationship with acanthocephalans and rotifers.The phylum is at present represented by one species which has been recorded from Denmark, Sweden, the Faeroes Islands and the Firth of Clyde, UK (O'Reilly 1997). It appears likely its distribution is related to that of its host.

    References

    • Funch, P. & Kristensen, R. M. 1995. Cycliophora is a new phylum with affinities to Entoprocta and Ectoprocta. Nature 378: 711-714.
    • O'Reilly, M. G. 1997. Cycliophora. In: The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas, Howson, C. & Picton, B. E., (eds). Belfast and Ross-on-Wye, Ulster Museum and the Marine Conservation Society 508 pp.
    • Winnepenninckx, B. M. H., Backeljau, T. & Kristensen, R. M. 1998. Relations of the new phylum Cycliophora. Nature 393: 636-637.

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