However, some phyla that used to be included in the deuterostomes have now been moved by molecular revisionists, whom we shall follow, to the protostomes. These are the three so-called lophophorate phyla—the phoronids, brachiopods and bryozoans—now grouped together with the molluscs and annelid worms in the ‘Lophotrochozoa’ division of the protostomes.
