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SYMBION PANDORA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Symbion pandora" is a kind of...):
invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)
Holonyms ("Symbion pandora" is a member of...):
Cycliophora; phylum Cycliophora (tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta)
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