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noun - multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa
noun - primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework
PARAZOA - The Parazoa, are a proposed clade of animals. Traditionally, Parazoa, literally translated as "beside the animals", only consisted of Porifera and th...
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| The sponges, Spongiozoa or Porifera, regarded as a prime division of the animal kingdom, of equal rank with Protozoa and Metazoa. |
| multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa comprises the single phylum Porifera |
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The Parazoa, are a proposed clade of animals. Traditionally, Parazoa, literally translated as "beside the animals", only consisted of Porifera and the Placozoa. It still is a basal animal group, but has been refuted in the original sense (i.e. as sister of the Eumetazoa). It now appears the Planulozoa/Eumetazoa actually are sister of the Placozoa, together forming the ParaHoxozoa/Epitheliozoa clade. With a cladistical inclusion of the Eumetazoa, Parazoa consists of the Porifera and the ParaHoxozoa/Epitheliozoa clade. The Ctenophora, originally part of Eumetazoa, appear to be the basalmost animals. So the original meaning of "beside the animals" now only works either in the sense of being paraphyletic stem group or if one considers the Ctenophora to be THE animals, neither of which is very satisfactory. An alternative name for this grouping has not been proposed. Given that the Porifera already have a ParaHox gene, ParaHoxozoa could be expanded to include Porifera, making it equivalent to Parazoa. Some authors only consider the Porifera when discussing the Parazoa. * Ctenophora as sister of all animals, as discussed here, has been considered controversial ever since the proposal in 2008. An alternative proposal is the Porifera-sister hypothesis. |