1. Brachiopods, or lampshells, are sessile animals enclosed in a bivalved shell

2. Brachiopods are a phylum of small marine shellfish, sometimes called lampshells

3. Brachiopoda (lampshells) A phylum of solitary, benthic, marine, bivalved, coelomate, invertebrate animals that have existed from the Lower Cambrian to the present day.

4. Brachiopods, or lampshells, are a phylum of small marine animals with a two-valved shell that, at first glance, resemble bivalved mollusks such as clams