Preferred Label : pharyngeal bar;
Uberon related term : gill bar; branchial bar;
Uberon Taxon note : Haikouella possessed a small number of pharyngeal bars that may have been composed
of mucocartilage, as in modern lampreys (Holland and Chen, 2001). the pharyngeal bars
of Haikouella were probably derived from neural crest, as were the sensory components
of the cranial nerves that innervated its pharyngeal muscles[http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/4/743.full];
Origin ID : 0034937;
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