Looking top down at an Entoprocta - an animal that has a phylum all of its own! It looks like there are 4 families in this phylum. I don’t know much about them but I like them!
#marineplankton 🦑 #entoprocta
#marineplankton 🦑 #entoprocta
May 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Looking top down at an Entoprocta - an animal that has a phylum all of its own! It looks like there are 4 families in this phylum. I don’t know much about them but I like them!
#marineplankton 🦑 #entoprocta
#marineplankton 🦑 #entoprocta
This is extremely cool! These are the ‘creeping larvae’ of an Entoprocta, which is an animal that lives on the sea floor and uses a lophophore (like a crown of ciliates tentacles) to feed. The beginning of the video is a timelapse, and thereafter it is realtime.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
January 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
This is extremely cool! These are the ‘creeping larvae’ of an Entoprocta, which is an animal that lives on the sea floor and uses a lophophore (like a crown of ciliates tentacles) to feed. The beginning of the video is a timelapse, and thereafter it is realtime.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
This is Trapania miltabrancha from the east coast of Bali. This #Nudibranch feeds on tiny Entoprocta that is often present on sponges.
#MarineLife #Invertebrates #SeaSlugs #Ocean #Indonesia
#MarineLife #Invertebrates #SeaSlugs #Ocean #Indonesia
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is Trapania miltabrancha from the east coast of Bali. This #Nudibranch feeds on tiny Entoprocta that is often present on sponges.
#MarineLife #Invertebrates #SeaSlugs #Ocean #Indonesia
#MarineLife #Invertebrates #SeaSlugs #Ocean #Indonesia
Controversial phylum to introduce you to today. These are the Entoprocta or Goblet Worms. They are...generous with the definition of a worm.
What do you think?
Shall we allow this goblet shaped wannabe into our worm club?
#NoVERMber
📸Pedicellina newberryi by abbyt CC-BY-NC
What do you think?
Shall we allow this goblet shaped wannabe into our worm club?
#NoVERMber
📸Pedicellina newberryi by abbyt CC-BY-NC
November 10, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Controversial phylum to introduce you to today. These are the Entoprocta or Goblet Worms. They are...generous with the definition of a worm.
What do you think?
Shall we allow this goblet shaped wannabe into our worm club?
#NoVERMber
📸Pedicellina newberryi by abbyt CC-BY-NC
What do you think?
Shall we allow this goblet shaped wannabe into our worm club?
#NoVERMber
📸Pedicellina newberryi by abbyt CC-BY-NC
Check out this video by Megan McCuller for some more hot Goblet Worm action
youtu.be/NpkIfwAF84A
youtu.be/NpkIfwAF84A
Phylum Kamptozoa (Entoprocta)
YouTube video by Megan McCuller (mccullermi)
youtu.be
November 10, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Check out this video by Megan McCuller for some more hot Goblet Worm action
youtu.be/NpkIfwAF84A
youtu.be/NpkIfwAF84A
I think the ones I'm missing are:
Entoprocta
Loricifera
Nematomorpha
Onychophora
Orthonectida
Placozoa
Entoprocta
Loricifera
Nematomorpha
Onychophora
Orthonectida
Placozoa
August 30, 2024 at 7:55 AM
I think the ones I'm missing are:
Entoprocta
Loricifera
Nematomorpha
Onychophora
Orthonectida
Placozoa
Entoprocta
Loricifera
Nematomorpha
Onychophora
Orthonectida
Placozoa
There were apparently proposals to abandon the term bryozoa, but this was not done because it would make the literature confusing. The Japanese must have coined the term 外肛動物 after it was recognized that ectoprocta and entoprocta were different.
May 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
There were apparently proposals to abandon the term bryozoa, but this was not done because it would make the literature confusing. The Japanese must have coined the term 外肛動物 after it was recognized that ectoprocta and entoprocta were different.
The "outside anus" refers to the fact that the anus was located just outside of the lophophore, the tentacles that surround the mouth of the bryozoa. Bryozoa is an older term that originally could also refer to entoprocta, a completely different type of animal, but was not recognized at that time.
May 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The "outside anus" refers to the fact that the anus was located just outside of the lophophore, the tentacles that surround the mouth of the bryozoa. Bryozoa is an older term that originally could also refer to entoprocta, a completely different type of animal, but was not recognized at that time.
Updated the #InverteFest phylum list! Now with better (invented) common names! As before, please click on the images because I don't know how to size for the bsky preview.
The check marks are blank this time, so YOU can download and fill it out - which phyla have you met? 🧪🦑
The check marks are blank this time, so YOU can download and fill it out - which phyla have you met? 🧪🦑
April 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Updated the #InverteFest phylum list! Now with better (invented) common names! As before, please click on the images because I don't know how to size for the bsky preview.
The check marks are blank this time, so YOU can download and fill it out - which phyla have you met? 🧪🦑
The check marks are blank this time, so YOU can download and fill it out - which phyla have you met? 🧪🦑
I’m guessing that’s what researchers said when they discovered Symbion
Cycliophora is a new phylum with affinities to Entoprocta and Ectoprocta - Nature
Nature - Cycliophora is a new phylum with affinities to Entoprocta and Ectoprocta
www.nature.com
August 4, 2023 at 2:36 PM
I’m guessing that’s what researchers said when they discovered Symbion
For #InverteFest, I decided to list all 33 invertebrate phyla. I have seen 20 of them alive (all but Acoels, Nematoda, and Onychophora were in the wild or collected in the wild). Click the images, they look better than the preview.
Which ones have you met/do you want to meet?
🧪🦑
Which ones have you met/do you want to meet?
🧪🦑
August 29, 2024 at 2:56 PM
For #InverteFest, I decided to list all 33 invertebrate phyla. I have seen 20 of them alive (all but Acoels, Nematoda, and Onychophora were in the wild or collected in the wild). Click the images, they look better than the preview.
Which ones have you met/do you want to meet?
🧪🦑
Which ones have you met/do you want to meet?
🧪🦑
Some days I hate taxonomy... Apparently, Polyzoa is both a superphyletic named clade containing Bryozoa and Entoprocta (maybe Cycliophora too) AND a valid tunicate genus...
a man in a military uniform is sitting at a table with papers on it .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is sitting at a table with papers on it .
media.tenor.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some days I hate taxonomy... Apparently, Polyzoa is both a superphyletic named clade containing Bryozoa and Entoprocta (maybe Cycliophora too) AND a valid tunicate genus...
Word of the Hour: Pedicellina - A genus of Bryozoa of the order Entoprocta having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
September 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Word of the Hour: Pedicellina - A genus of Bryozoa of the order Entoprocta having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
冠輪動物（螺旋動物）および内肛動物の未出版のゲノム系統学的研究などが含まれているようです！
Apparently includes, among other things, unpublished phylogenomic studies of Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia) and Entoprocta!
Apparently includes, among other things, unpublished phylogenomic studies of Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia) and Entoprocta!
Roberts (2025)（博士論文 doctoral thesis）
Increased Sampling of Small-Bodied Lophotrochozoans Yields Enhanced Resolution of the Most Enigmatic Invertebrate Superphylum
www.proquest.com/openview/172...
Increased Sampling of Small-Bodied Lophotrochozoans Yields Enhanced Resolution of the Most Enigmatic Invertebrate Superphylum
www.proquest.com/openview/172...
Increased Sampling of Small-Bodied Lophotrochozoans Yields Enhanced Resolution of the Most Enigmatic Invertebrate Superphylum - ProQuest
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January 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM
冠輪動物（螺旋動物）および内肛動物の未出版のゲノム系統学的研究などが含まれているようです！
Apparently includes, among other things, unpublished phylogenomic studies of Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia) and Entoprocta!
Apparently includes, among other things, unpublished phylogenomic studies of Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia) and Entoprocta!
tô ha duas horas tentando entender a diferença de lophophorata, bryozoa e entoprocta vou ficar maluca odeio vermes marinhos
September 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
tô ha duas horas tentando entender a diferença de lophophorata, bryozoa e entoprocta vou ficar maluca odeio vermes marinhos
Word of the Hour: Pedicellina - A genus of Bryozoa of the order Entoprocta having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Word of the Hour: Pedicellina - A genus of Bryozoa of the order Entoprocta having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
Word of the Hour: Epistome - A liplike organ that covers the mouth in most Bryozoa. See Illust. under Entoprocta. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
September 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Word of the Hour: Epistome - A liplike organ that covers the mouth in most Bryozoa. See Illust. under Entoprocta. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: A new species of solitary Entoprocta, Loxosomella angusta sp. n., from the White Sea (2 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/2a98bfb2-16db-472d-8974-7dd5aa0934db
May 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: A new species of solitary Entoprocta, Loxosomella angusta sp. n., from the White Sea (2 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/2a98bfb2-16db-472d-8974-7dd5aa0934db
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Myopedicellina, a replacement name for Myosoma Robertson (Entoprocta: Pedicellinidae) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ab869de7-e55d-43b3-b71b-2b33616428d4
January 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Myopedicellina, a replacement name for Myosoma Robertson (Entoprocta: Pedicellinidae) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ab869de7-e55d-43b3-b71b-2b33616428d4
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
September 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
May 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
March 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Genus/Species: Entoprocta
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans
Subtitle: goblet worms, nodding heads, kamptozoans