Trichoplax adhaerens is one of the four named species in the phylum Placozoa. The others are Hoilungia hongkongensis, Polyplacotoma mediterranea and Cladtertia...

constituting a primitive metazoan phylum. The first known placozoan, Trichoplax adhaerens, was discovered in 1883 by the German zoologist Franz Eilhard...

Sagasser, Sven; Kuhn, Kerstin (April 2004). "The Trox-2 Hox/ParaHox gene of Trichoplax (Placozoa) marks an epithelial boundary". Development Genes and Evolution...

its environment and behave accordingly. Not all animals have neurons; Trichoplax and sponges lack nerve cells altogether. Neurons may be packed to form...

Parazoa the poriferous or sponge phyla and Placozoa—comprising only the Trichoplax adhaerens species – on the basis of shared primitive characteristics:...

Applications. 6th ed. United States:Thomson, 2006. ISBN 0-534-46224-3. TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS (PLACOZOA TYPE) St. Petersburg. 2005 Metazoa: the Animals Nielsen...

Eumetazoa. (The latter refers to all the animals except the sponges, Trichoplax, and the still poorly understood Mesozoa). Neither grouping is accepted...

1994) was a German zoologist and protistologist, known for his work on Trichoplax. Karl Grell received his doctorate (Promotion) in 1934 from the University...

sponges (the most primitive of modern animal groups, with the exception of Trichoplax); apparently, the Huainan biota cannot be considered ancestral either...

response that sponges use to rid themselves of contaminants. The genome of Trichoplax, a primitive organism that also lacks a nervous system, contains numerous...