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Image of horseshoe worms

Image of horseshoe worms

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Figure 7.Phoronis ijimai. A NSMT-Te 878, eggs brooded in the lophophore (some tentacles have been removed) B NSMT-Te 884, transverse section through the basal part of the lophophore, showing mature eggs on the basal nidamental glands C NSMT-Te 883, enlargement of brooded eggs, showing various developmental stages. Abbreviations: eg egg; te tentacle.

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Masato Hirose, Ryuma Fukiage, Toru Katoh, Hiroshi Kajihara
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Hirose M, Fukiage R, Katoh T, Kajihara H (2014) Description and molecular phylogeny of a new species of Phoronis (Phoronida) from Japan, with a redescription of topotypes of P. ijimai Oka, 1897 ZooKeys 398: 1–31
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zookeys.398.5176.sp_1_p_6