Lophophorata

{{Automatic taxobox

| oldest_fossil = Early Cambrian

| image = Haeckel_Bryozoa.jpg

| image_caption = Bryozoa

| image2 = Terebratalia_transversa_141510036.jpg

| image2_caption = Brachiopod

| display_parents = 8

| taxon = Lophophorata

| authority = Meglitsch, 1972

| subdivision_ranks = Clades

| subdivision = *{{extinct}}"Tommotiida" (paraphyletic)

| synonyms = {{taxon list|Tentaculata|Hatschek, 1888}}

| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|last1=Hedgpeth |first1=Joel W. |date=February 1977 |title=Introduction to the Symposium: Biology of Lophophorates |journal=American Zoologist |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=3–4 |doi=10.1093/icb/17.1.3}}

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The Lophophorata (also called Tentaculata; not to be confused with Tentaculata Eschscholtz 1825, a class within the Ctenophora) are a Lophotrochozoan clade consisting of the Brachiozoa and the Bryozoa.{{Cite journal|last1=Temereva|first1=Elena N.|last2=Kuzmina|first2=Tatyana V.|date=2017-07-31|title=The first data on the innervation of the lophophore in the rhynchonelliform brachiopod Hemithiris psittacea: what is the ground pattern of the lophophore in lophophorates?|journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology|volume=17|issue=1 |pages=172|doi=10.1186/s12862-017-1029-5|doi-access=free|issn=1471-2148|pmc=5537927|pmid=28760135}}{{aut|Meglitsch, P.A.}} (1972). The Lophophorate Coelomates. in: Invertebrate Zoology 2nd ed. 671–697{{Cite journal|last1=Luo|first1=Yi-Jyun|last2=Kanda|first2=Miyuki|last3=Koyanagi|first3=Ryo|last4=Hisata|first4=Kanako|last5=Akiyama|first5=Tadashi|last6=Sakamoto|first6=Hirotaka|last7=Sakamoto|first7=Tatsuya|last8=Satoh|first8=Noriyuki|date=2017-12-04|title=Nemertean and phoronid genomes reveal lophotrochozoan evolution and the origin of bilaterian heads|journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution|volume=2|issue=1|pages=141–151|doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0389-y|issn=2397-334X|pmid=29203924|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Hausdorf|first1=B.|last2=Helmkampf|first2=M.|last3=Meyer|first3=A.|last4=Witek|first4=A.|last5=Herlyn|first5=H.|last6=Bruchhaus|first6=I.|last7=Hankeln|first7=T.|last8=Struck|first8=T. H.|last9=Lieb|first9=B.|date=2007-06-29|title=Spiralian Phylogenomics Supports the Resurrection of Bryozoa Comprising Ectoprocta and Entoprocta|journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution|language=en|volume=24|issue=12|pages=2723–2729|doi=10.1093/molbev/msm214|issn=0737-4038|pmid=17921486|doi-access=free}} They have a lophophore. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that lophophorates are protostomes, but on morphological grounds they have been assessed as deuterostomes.{{Cite journal|last1=Jang|first1=Kuem|last2=Hwang|first2=Ui|date=2009|title=Complete mitochondrial genome of Bugula neritina (Bryozoa, Gymnolaemata, Cheilostomata): phylogenetic position of Bryozoa and phylogeny of lophophorates within the Lophotrochozoa|url= |journal=BMC Genomics|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=167|doi=10.1186/1471-2164-10-167|doi-access=free|issn=1471-2164|pmc=2678162|pmid=19379522}} Fossil finds of the "tommotiid" Wufengella suggest that they evolved from worm-like animals that resembled annelids.{{cite journal|last1=Guo|first1=Jin|last2=Parry|first2=Luke A.|last3=Vinther|first3=Jakob|last4=Edgecombe|first4=Gregory D.|last5=Wei|first5=Fan|last6=Zhao|first6=Yang|last7=Béthoux|first7=Olivier|last8=Lei|first8=Xiangtong|last9=Chen|first9=Ailin|last10=Hou|first10=Xianguang|last11=Chen|first11=Taimin|last12=Cong|first12=Peiyun|display-authors=6|title=A Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft tissues reveals the metameric ancestry of lophophorates|year=2022|volume=32|issue=21|journal=Current Biology|pages=4769–4778.e2|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.011|doi-access=free|pmid=36170853}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/september/ancient-hairy-armoured-worm-lived-oceans-over-500-million-years-ago.html|title=An ancient hairy, armoured worm lived in the oceans over 500 million years ago|last=Davis|first=Josh|date=29 September 2022|access-date=8 February 2023|website=Natural History Museum|publisher=The Trustees of The Natural History Museum|location=London}}