Nemertodermatidae

Nemertodermatidae is a family of wormlike animals in the phylum Acoelomorpha. They are similar to the flatworms of the phylum Platyhelminthes, and were traditionally classified as such.

Nemertodermatidae
Three Meara stichopi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Acoelomorpha
Class:
Nemertodermatida
Family:
Nemertodermatidae

Steinböck, 1930
Genera

See text

These are hermaphroditic marine worms with ciliated bodies containing a "sack-like gut".[1]

There are four genera:[2]

  • Meara
    • Meara stichopi Westblad 1949
  • Nemertinoides
    • Nemertinoides elongatus Riser 1987
    • Nemertinoides glandulosum
    • Nemertinoides wolfgangi
  • Nemertoderma
    • Nemertoderma bathycola 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

References
  1. Børve, A. and A. Hejnol. (2014). Development and juvenile anatomy of the nemertodermatid Meara stichopi (Bock) Westblad 1949 (Acoelomorpha). Frontiers in Zoology 11 50.
  2. 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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