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| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| classis = [[Monoplacophora]]
| classis = [[Monoplacophora]]
| classis_authority = [[Nils Hjalmar Odhner|Odhner]], [[1940]]
| ordo = [[Tryblidiida]]
| ordo = [[Tryblidiida]]
| superfamilia = [[Tryblidioidea]]
| superfamilia = [[Tryblidioidea]]
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ISBN 351507659X, 9783515076593
ISBN 351507659X, 9783515076593
243 pages</ref>
243 pages</ref>
However, Molecular methods show that they fall within the [[polyplacophoran]] clade,<ref name=Giribet2006>{{cite doi| 10.1073/pnas.0602578103}}</ref> and fossil and morphological data show that they are rather derived and bear very little resemblance to an 'ancestral mollusc'.<ref name=Peters2000/>
However, molecular methods show that they fall within the [[polyplacophoran]] clade,<ref name=Giribet2006>{{cite doi| 10.1073/pnas.0602578103}}</ref> and fossil and morphological data show that they are rather derived and bear very little resemblance to an 'ancestral mollusc'.<ref name=Peters2000/>


Its anatomy<ref name=Lemche1959>{{cite journal|author=Lemche, H|url=http://www.zmuc.dk/inverweb/Galathea/index.html|format= Link to free full text + plates|author2= Wingstrand, K.G. |year=1959|title=The anatomy of ''Neopilina galatheae'' Lemche, 1957 (Mollusca, Tryblidiacea). |journal=Galathea
Its anatomy<ref name=Lemche1959>{{cite journal|author=Lemche, H|url=http://www.zmuc.dk/inverweb/Galathea/index.html|format= Link to free full text + plates|author2= Wingstrand, K.G. |year=1959|title=The anatomy of ''Neopilina galatheae'' Lemche, 1957 (Mollusca, Tryblidiacea). |journal=Galathea

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Neopilina
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Neopilina
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  • N. bruuni Menzies, 1968
  • N. galatheae Lemche, 1957
  • N. rebainsi Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova, 1983

Neopilina is a highly derived genus of modern monoplacophoran.[1] However, molecular methods show that they fall within the polyplacophoran clade,[2] and fossil and morphological data show that they are rather derived and bear very little resemblance to an 'ancestral mollusc'.[1]

Its anatomy[3] led researchers to believe that the cephalopods evolved from the monoplacophora.[3]

Its pair of preoral tentacles are considered homologous to those of gastropods; like prosobranch gastropod tentacles, their nerves connect to the cerebal ganglia of the brain.[3] The post-oral tentacles are equated with bivalves' labial flaps, cephalopods' arms, and scaphopods' captacula.[3]

Cuticular hardenings around the mouth of the organism are considered to be jaw-like and very not far removed from the beaks of cephalopods, or the jaws of many gastropods.[3]

The presence of a single shell prompts comparisons to the cephalopod Nautilus, but besides its bilateral symmetry and direction of coiling, there is not a clear equivalence; Nautlius' shell is notably different in the possession of septa (and thus a sphuncle).[3]: 64  It bears a similar degree of similarity to most other mollusc groups, leading to speculation that it may reflect a relatively unchanged ancestral mollusc.[3] The shell itself is aragonitic, consisting mainly of a prismatic layer,[4] lined with nacre.[3]

The organism bears five pairs of ctenidia, unusually for molluscs; the rear two are homologous to the two pairs in Nautilus. This is unlike the polyplacophora, who have a number of pairs of ctenidia, but this number varies and is not related to the number of their body 'segments'.[3]

The foot and pallial groove are very difficult indeed to discriminate from the polyplacophora,[3] supporting its placement in this group by molecular methods[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Organisms, Genes and Evolution: Evolutionary Theory at the Crossroads ; Proceedings of the 7th International Senckenberg Conference By Dieter Stefan Peters, Michael Weingarten Contributor Dieter Stefan Peters Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000 ISBN 351507659X, 9783515076593 243 pages
  2. ^ a b Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi: 10.1073/pnas.0602578103, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi= 10.1073/pnas.0602578103 instead.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Lemche, H; Wingstrand, K.G. (1959). "The anatomy of Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957 (Mollusca, Tryblidiacea)" (Link to free full text + plates). Galathea Rep. 3: 9–73. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |journal= at position 9 (help)
  4. ^ Stephen Weiner and Lia Addadi (2007). "Design strategies in mineralized biological materials" (PDF). - contains spectacular SEM of prismatic nature of aragonite shell.