Nemertodermatidae is a family of wormlike animals in the phylum
Acoelomorpha. They are similar to the
flatworm
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegment ...
s of the phylum Platyhelminthes, and were traditionally classified as such.
These are hermaphroditic marine worms with ciliated bodies containing a "sack-like gut".
There are four genera:
Nemertodermatidae Steinböck, 1930.
''In'': Tyler, S. and T. Artois. World list of Acoelomorpha. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). 2014.
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''Meara '' is a genus of bilaterally symmetric, small aquatic worms in the phylum Acoelomorpha. This genus contains only one
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''Nemertinoides'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in North America, near Antarctica.
Species:
*''Nemertinoides elongatus''
*''Nemertinoides glandulosum''
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** ''Nemertinoides glandulosum
''Nemertinoides'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in North America, near Antarctica.
Species:
*''Nemertinoides elongatus''
*'' Nemertinoides glandulosum''
*''Nemertinoides wo ...
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** ''Nemertinoides wolfgangi
''Nemertinoides'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in North America, near Antarctica.
Species:
*''Nemertinoides elongatus
''Nemertinoides'' is a genus of worms belonging to t ...
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* '' Nemertoderma''
** ''Nemertoderma bathycola
''Nemertoderma'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe.
Species:
*'' Nemertoderma bathycola''
*''Nemertoderma westbladi
''Nemertoderma'' is a genus of worms belonging to ...
'' Steinböck 1930
** '' Nemertoderma westbladi'' (Westblad) Steinbock, 1938
* '' Sterreria''
** '' Sterreria boucheti''
** '' Sterreria lundini''
** '' Sterreria martindalei''
** '' Sterreria monolithes''
** '' Sterreria papuensis''
** '' Sterreria psammicola'' (Sterrer 1970)
** '' Sterreria rubra''
** '' Sterreria variabilis''
** ''Sterreria ylvae
''Sterreria'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in North Europe.
Species:
*''Sterreria boucheti''
*''Sterreria lundini''
*''Sterreria martindalei''
*''Sterreria monolithes''
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References
Acoelomorphs
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