Atubaria heterolopha

Atubaria heterolopha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Hemichordata
Class: Pterobranchia
Order: Cephalodiscida
Family: Atubaridae
Genus: Atubaria
Species:
A. heterolopha
Binomial name
Atubaria heterolopha
Sato 1936

Atubaria heterolopha is a species of hemichordates in the monotypic genus Atubaria and in the monotypic family Atubaridae. This taxon belongs to the pterobranchian order Cephalodiscida. It was described by Tadao Sato in 1936[1] from specimens found feeding on a colony of the hydrozoan Dycoryne conferta in Sagami Bay, Japan.[2]

  1. ^ Sato, Tadao (1936). "Vorläufige Mitteilung über Atubaria heterolopha gen. nov. sp. nov., einen in freiem Zustand aufgefundenen Pterobranchier aus dem Stillen Ozean". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 115: 97–106.
  2. ^ Maletz, Jörg (2017). Graptolite Paleobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118515617.