Biology:Parergodrilidae

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Short description: Family of worms

Parergodrilidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Sedentaria
Order: Orbiniida (?)
Family: Parergodrilidae

Parergodrilidae is an enigmatic family of polychaetes with only two genera, one living on the coast, the other terrestrial.

They share much in common with the clitellates, but molecular data place them with Questa and Orbiniidae.[1]

References

  1. Purschke, Günter; Fursman, Mary C. (2005). "Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa in Stygocapitella subterranea (Annelida, Parergodrilidae), an Enigmatic Supralittoral Polychaete". Zoomorphology 124 (3): 137–148. doi:10.1007/s00435-005-0001-x. 

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