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Pogonophora, Pogophoran (s) (noun); Pogonophoras, Pogophorans
1. Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at great depths in the various seas off continents and large islands.
2. Pogonophorans have tentacles that are often featherlike, or like hairs of a beard, which are attached to the head region or anterior end. An intestine is present in the embryonic stage but it disappears as the animal matures. 3. A phylum of wormlike, sedentary marine animals that lack a digestive tract, possess a body cavity (coelom), and bear one to many fringed tentacles at the anterior end.
4. Commonly called "beard worms" because of their tentacles, pogonophores are long and slender, ranging in length from four to twelve inches, with a diameter up to one-tenth of an inch in larger species.
2. Pogonophorans have tentacles that are often featherlike, or like hairs of a beard, which are attached to the head region or anterior end. An intestine is present in the embryonic stage but it disappears as the animal matures. 3. A phylum of wormlike, sedentary marine animals that lack a digestive tract, possess a body cavity (coelom), and bear one to many fringed tentacles at the anterior end.
4. Commonly called "beard worms" because of their tentacles, pogonophores are long and slender, ranging in length from four to twelve inches, with a diameter up to one-tenth of an inch in larger species.
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“pogonophora”
Phylum 28, Pogonophora
In Greek pogonos means a beard,
And phorein means to wear the same.
In ocean's depths, unseen, unheard,
For ages lived a bearded worm;
'Twas caught, whole and alive,
And named in nineteen fifty-five.
And phorein means to wear the same.
In ocean's depths, unseen, unheard,
For ages lived a bearded worm;
'Twas caught, whole and alive,
And named in nineteen fifty-five.
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