Talk:Trichoplax

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[edit] How recently have they been observed?

The first sentence says they haven't been observed since 1896, but the rest of the text implies that they have been rather more extensively studied (even gene sequenced) and are "easily collected in tropical and subtropical latitudes around the world." For that reason, I'm tagging this article as contradictory. Deranged bulbasaur 16:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

It is the possible second species Treptoplax reptans that hasn't been seen since 1896, not Trichoplax adhaerens. Mgiganteus1 16:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Also contradictory is the statement that dellaporta's article (reference 1)places them as basal to eumetazoa (a classification group which excludes porifera), where the article title indicates that they are basal to metazoa and actually reading the article confirms that the mitochondrial genome was considered to be between choanoflagellates and all metazoa including specifically porifera.71.111.48.55 03:33, 29 June 2007 (UTC)sms