Category:Placozoa

The Placozoa are a basal form of free-living (non-parasitic) multicellular organism.[1]

Biology
Main article: Trichoplax

Trichoplax is a small, flattened, animal around 1 mm (0.039 in) across. Like an Amoeba, it has no regular outline, although the lower surface is somewhat concave, and the upper surface is always flattened. The body consists of an outer layer of simple epithelium enclosing a loose sheet of stellate cells resembling the mesenchyme of some more complex animals. The epithelial cells bear cilia, which the animal uses to help it creep along the seafloor.[8]