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- noun Plural form of
annelid .
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Examples
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The unnamed worms are known as annelids, a group that also includes the familiar garden earthworm, as well as more unusual critters such as the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm.
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A species of marine worms (annelids) can detach bioluminescent flash bombs from their heads to stun other animals.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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At the National Museum of Natural History, molluscs (and corals, annelids, etc.) belong to the Invertebrate Zoology Dept., while Vertebrate Zoology seems to be larger than IZ but represents far fewer species.
Where are all the malacologists? AYDIN 2009
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The cool thing about the fossil is that it combines features from two other fossils that Conway Morris previously implicated as transitional stem groups between the modern crown groups “phyla” of mollusks, annelids, and brachiopods: Wiwaxia and Halkeria.
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Maybe the flatworms are thriving by feeding on the alien annelids?
Bipalium adventitium AYDIN 2009
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The richest habitat, with the highest biomass values found in any várzea environment, is the floating grasslands, harboring about 100 species during some part of the year with an invertebrate fauna dominated by micro - and macrocrustacea, mollusks, annelids, flatworms, sponges, adult and larval insects, and arachnids.
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But what would it be like to actually be one of these underground annelids?
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Some consider the helminths to also include the segmented worms (annelids) — the only ones important medically are the leeches.
Parasite 2008
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Larval stages of larger animals, such as fish, crustaceans, and annelids are included here.
Plankton 2008
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However, again, this was not an argument based on ignorance but rather an argument based on the assumption of common descent and the amount of similarities between the central nervous system of annelids
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