[Taxacom] generalizing from Bivalved molluscs

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Fred,
      I guess it would depend on how strictly one defined
decephalization.  One candidate would be the free-living (non-parasitic)
barnacles.  Another candidate would be tunicates (as I recall, they
"digest" their own cerebral ganglion after becoming sessile).         
            ------Cheers,    
                           Ken            
P.S.  I was going to say Marie Antoinette, but I guess her subjects
considered her a parasite.  :-)             
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Fred Schueler wrote:
* is there any well-corroborated case of decephalization in a
nonparasitic lineage?