''Nipponnemertes'' is a genus of
worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always).
Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wor ...
s belonging to the family
Cratenemertidae
Cratenemertidae is a family of worms belonging to the order Hoplonemertea
Hoplonemertea is an order of ribbon worms in the class Enopla. It contains two suborders:
* Monostilifera
* Polystilifera
The proboscis is armed with one or more s ...
.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
.
Species:
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Nipponnemertes africanus''
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Nipponnemertes arenaria''
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Nipponnemertes bimaculata''
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Nipponnemertes danae''
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Nipponnemertes drepanophoroides''
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Nipponnemertes fernaldi''
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Nipponnemertes incainca''
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Nipponnemertes madagascarensis''
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Nipponnemertes magnus''
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Nipponnemertes marioni''
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Nipponnemertes occidentalis''
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Nipponnemertes ogumai''
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Nipponnemertes pacificus''
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Nipponnemertes pulcher''
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Nipponnemertes pulchra''
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Nipponnemertes punctatula''
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Nipponnemertes rubella''
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Nipponnemertes sanguinea''
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Nipponnemertes schollaerti''
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Nipponnemertes variabilis''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3816198
Nemerteans