Lingula anatina

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]

Lingula anatina
Lingula anatina from Stradbroke Island, Australia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Class:	Lingulata
Order:	Lingulida
Family:	Lingulidae
Genus:	Lingula
Species:	L. anatina
Binomial name
Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801

References

1. 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). Public Library of Science (PLoS): e0123040. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1023040T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123040. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4406759. PMID 25901745.

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