Rhabdopleura

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Rhabdopleura

Genus of hemichordates

Rhabdopleura is a genus of colonial sessile hemichordates belonging to the Pterobranchia class. As one of the oldest living genera with a fossil record dating back to the Middle Cambrian, it is also considered to be the only living genus of graptolites.[1]

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Rhabdopleura is the best studied pterobranch in developmental biology.[2] Research in the 2010s by Jörg Maletz and other paleontologists and biologists have demonstrated that Rhabdopleura is an extant graptolite.[3][4]

Species

List of species from Maletz (2014):[5]

Living species

The genus Rhabdopleura contains at least five living species.

Nomina dubia (doubtful)
  • Rhabdopleura grimaldi Julien 1890 nomen dubium
  • Rhabdopleura manubialis Jullien & Calvet 1903 nomen dubium
Extinct species
  • †Rhabdopleura delmari Mortelmans 1955
  • †Rhabdopleura graysoni Chapman, Durman & Rickards 1995
  • †Rhabdopleura hollandi Rickards, Chapman & Temple 1984
  • †Rhabdopleura kozlowskii Kulicki 1969
  • †Rhabdopleura obuti Durman & Sennikov 1993
  • †Rhabdopleura sinica Chapman, Durman & Rickards 1995
  • †Rhabdopleura vistulae Kozlowski 1956

Fossil record

The fossil record for Rhabdopleura dates back to the Middle Cambrian. There are also Rhabdopleura fossils from the Eocene.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Maletz, Jörg (2017). Graptolite Paleobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118515617.
  2. [2]
    Sato, A; Bishop JDD; Holland PWH (2008). "Developmental biology of pterobranch hemichordates: history and perspectives". Genesis. 46 (11): 587–91. doi:10.1002/dvg.20395. PMID 18798243.
  3. [3]
    Sato, A; Rickards, RB; Holland PWH (2008). "The origins of graptolites and other pterobranchs: a journey from 'Polyzoa'". Lethaia. 41 (4): 303–316. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00123.x.
  4. [4]
    Mitchell, Charles E.; Michael J. Melchin; Chris B. Cameron; Jörg Maletz (2012). "Phylogenetic analysis reveals that Rhabdopleura is an extant graptolite". Lethaia. 46: 34–56. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2012.00319.x. ISSN 0024-1164.
  5. [5]
    Maletz, Jörg (2014). "The classification of the Pterobranchia (Cephalodiscida and Graptolithina)". Bulletin of Geosciences. 89 (3): 477–540. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1465. ISSN 1214-1119.
  6. [6]
    A.J. Chapman; P.N. Durman; R.B. Rickards. 1995. Rhabdopleuran hemichordates: new fossil forms and review. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Volume 106, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 293-303. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(08)80240-4
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