The early growth stages and adult structure of the lophophore of Macandrevia cranium (Müller) (Brachiopoda, Dallinidae)
- 1 February 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 38 (2), 335-350
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400006123
Abstract
Although it has been stated (Thomson, 1927, p. 234; Elliott, 1953, p. 264) that the descending branches of the loop in dallinids, so far as is known, grow from the crura only, yet figures supporting this statement have not so far been published, not even by Beecher (1895) who described the very early stages of lophophore and loop in Dallinella (=Terebratalia) obsoleta (Dall). Tiny specimens of Macandrevia cranium dredged by R. V. ‘Sarsia’ have now made it possible for such figures to be published. It is a point of some importance as it is one of the characters given by Thomson (1927, p. 234) as distinguishing the Dallininae from the Mühlfeldtiinae (= Megerliinae Muir-Wood, 1955) and the Magellaniinae (= Terebratellinae, see Muir-Wood, 1955), for in the two latter groups the descending branches of the loop grow from both crura and septum to unite in the middle. At the time Thomson was writing, young growth stages of the loop of a member of the Laqueinae were not known. Since then, Konjoukova (1948, 1957) has studied the development of Laqueus californicus—which she placed in the Dallininae—and according to her the descending branches on reaching the septum join with it. She does not, however, figure any intermediate stages between absence of descending branches and complete ones. In 1941 Laqueinae was raised to family rank by Yabe and Hatai (see Muir-Wood, 1955, p. 93).This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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