Directory of Placozoa Resources

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Phylum in the animal kingdom containing a single known species, Trichoplax adhaerens, which creeps over the surface of seaweeds in tropical seas. Placozoans are simple creatures without a clearly defined shape and sometimes behave as if they were colonies of individual organisms.

Resources in This Category

• A Weird Wee Beastie: Trichoplax adhaerens

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct98/tricho.html
  Article by Richard Howey on this organism which is considered to be the most primitive multi-cellular animal known.

• Introduction to Placozoa

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/placozoa/placozoa.html
  Information and a photograph of these strange organisms which have never been observed in their natural habitat.

• Trichoplax

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax
  Information from Wikipedia on this genus of simple marine organisms, with a photograph.

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