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Glossobalanus Polybranchioporus
''Glossobalanus'' is a genus of worms belonging to the family Ptychoderidae. Distribution The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution, with species found in North and South American, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Species Species: *''Glossobalanus alatus'' *''Glossobalanus barnharti'' *''Glossobalanus berkeleyi'' *''Glossobalanus polybranchioporus Tchang & Liang, 1965'' *''Glossobalanus mortenseni'' van der Horst, 1932 *''Glossobalanus weii Fu & Guo & Ding & Zhou & Wei, 2024'' *''Glossobalanus marginatus'' Meek, 1922 *''Glossobalanus crozieri van der Horst, 1924'' *''Glossobalanus elongatus Spengel, 1904'' *''Glossobalanus hartmanae Cameron & Ostiguy, 2013'' *''Glossobalanus hedleyi Hill, 1897'' *''Glossobalanus indicus Rao, 1955'' *Glossobalanus minutus, Glossobalanus ''minutus'' ''Kowalevsky, 1866'' *Glossobalanus parvulus, Glossobalanus ''parvulus'' Punnett, 1906 *Glossobalanus ruficollis, Glossobalanus ''ruficollis'' ''Willey, 1899'' *Glossobalanus sarniensis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateria, bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limb (anatomy), limbs, and usually no eyes. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms); for the African giant earthworm, ''Microchaetus rappi''; and for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), ''Lineus longissimus''. Various types of worm occupy a small variety of parasitism, parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals. Free-living worm species do not live on land but instead live in marine or freshwater environments or underground by burrowing. In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, ''Vermes'', used by Carl Linnaeus, Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English word ''wikt:wyrm, wyrm''. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
