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Structure of the brachiopod lophophore

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Data on the development, structure, and functional morphology of the brachiopod lophophore are analyzed. The common origin of the tentacle apparatus in Lophophorata from the postoral ciliary band of the larva is shown. The brachiopod lophophore is based on the brachial axis consisting of the brachial fold running along the row of tentacles. The brachial axis may be attached to the brachial (dorsal) mantle lobe (trocholophe, schizolophe, and ptycholophe lophophores) or extend freely into the mantle cavity to form coiling brachia (spirolophe, zygolophe, and plectolophe lophophores). The circulation of water flows through the mantle cavity in the brachiopods with attached and free lophophores is described. A new hypothesis on the sorting of particles suspended in water during filtration is proposed.

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Original Russian Text © T.V. Kuzmina, V.V. Malakhov, 2007, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, No. 5, pp. 46–63.

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Kuzmina, T.V., Malakhov, V.V. Structure of the brachiopod lophophore. Paleontol. J. 41, 520–536 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030107050073

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