Science News, December 16th, 1995
Even the most sophisticated lobster lovers probably give little thought to the creatures' lips. If they only knew what they were missing.
On the mouths of Norwegian lobsters lives a tiny invertebrate that fits into none of the animal kingdom's 35 or so broad taxonomic groups called phyla, claim Peter Funch and Reinhardt Mbjerg Kristensen of the University of Copenhagen. They have named the creature Symbion pandora and have assigned it to an entirely new phylum, which they call Cycliophora.
Their discovery of "what appears to be a new phylum of metazoans has to be the zoological highlight o...
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