Phoronidae Hatschek 1880

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 8 seconds

Figure 2.Phoronis ijimai Oka, 1897, NSMT-Te 879. A Living individuals collected from the pier of Misaki Marine Biological Station B enlargement of living individuals C preserved individual (10% formalin seawater) with a transparent cylindrical tube.

Singapore, North East, Singapore

Gemeinde Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia

USNM 1618233, FPlrv_1190 - Unedited Specimen Image 8. All raw larval photos imported at time of cataloging. Edited, curated photos expected at a later date.

This was a very dense patch growing on the shady side of a dock. It was the only patch I could find. Total length of each lophophore was about an inch.

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 16 seconds

Figure 3.Phoronis ijimai Oka, 1897, NSMT-Te 880. A Living bivalve (Barbatia sp.) with various sessile organisms B Living Phoronis ijimai on the shell (arrowheads).

Singapore, North East, Singapore

Maria McGuinness PhD Researcher School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences | MaREI | University College Cork © Abundance and seasonality of phoronid larvae in coastal temperate waters: More abundant than previously thought? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363055713_Abundance_and_seasonality_of_phoronid_larvae_in_coastal_temperate_waters_More_abundant_than_previously_thought  

USNM 1618457, FPlrv_1414 - Unedited Specimen Image 9. All raw larval photos imported at time of cataloging. Edited, curated photos expected at a later date.

I thought they were worms, but Brenna taught me otherwise. Many of these in the sand pools along the beach at Pillar Pt. harbor.

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 20 seconds

Figure 4.Phoronis ijimai Oka, 1897, NSMT-Te 885, transverse section through basal part of lophophore.

Singapore, North East, Singapore

Phoronis ovalis Wright , 1856 Sampled subtidally below a beach of Swakopmund (Namibia) in a mollusk shell of Perna perna © 2009 Dr. Alan Trimble, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)

USNM 1618233, FPlrv_1190 - Unedited Specimen Image 2. All raw larval photos imported at time of cataloging. Edited, curated photos expected at a later date.

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 17 seconds

Figure 5.Reconstructed three-dimensional images and transverse sections of the nephridium of Phoronis ijimai Oka, 1897, from NSMT-Te 886 (A, B, D) and NSMT-Te 884 (C). A Lateral view, showing the long nephridial papillae above the anus B dorsolateral view, showing the offset arrangement of the nephridia, with the curved ascending branch and large anal funnel extending toward the esophagus C transverse section through the nephridial papilla, showing the nephridiopore D transverse section through the ascending branch, showing the large anal funnel opening toward the esophagus, Abbreviations: ab ascending branch; af anal funnel; an anus; es esophagus; in intestine; lne left nephridium; np nephridial papilla; p nephridiopore; rne right nephridium. Planes C and D in panel A indicate the positions of the transverse sections in C and D.

Kampong Pasir Ris, North East, Singapore

Indian Arm, British Columbia