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Applied to primitive echinoderms (Crinozoa) that are attached to the substratum by a stalk (pelma). Formerly the pelmatozoans were ranked as a subphylum (Pelmatozoa) but the term is now used only informally.
From: pelmatozoan in A Dictionary of Zoology »
Subjects: Zoology and Animal Sciences — Earth Sciences and Geography.
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