Lingula anatina
| Lingula anatina | |
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| Lingula anatina from Stradbroke Island, Australia. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Lingulata |
| Order: | Lingulida |
| Family: | Lingulidae |
| Genus: | Lingula |
| Species: | L. anatina
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| Binomial name | |
| Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801
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Lingula anatina is a brachiopod species in the genus Lingula. Like others in its genus, L. anatina is a filter feeder that uses a lophophore to extract food from water. They burrow in the sand of their brackish intertidal habitat.[1]
References
- ^ Temereva, Elena N.; Tsitrin, Eugeni B. (2015-04-22). Hejnol, Andreas (ed.). "Modern Data on the Innervation of the Lophophore in Lingula anatina (Brachiopoda) Support the Monophyly of the Lophophorates". PLOS ONE. 10 (4) e0123040. Public Library of Science (PLoS). Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1023040T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123040. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4406759. PMID 25901745.
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