Cephalothricidae is a family 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 worm ...
s belonging to the order
Palaeonemertea
Palaeonemertea is a class of primitive nemertean worm. It may be para- or polyphyletic, consisting of three to five clades and totalling about 100 species.
These worms have several apparently simple features and, as their name suggests, they ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Astemma''
Örsted, 1843
* ''
Balionemertes''
Sundberg, Gibson & Olsson, 2003
* ''
Cephalothrix
''Cephalothrix'' is a genus of nemerteans belonging to the family Cephalothricidae.
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 ...
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Örsted, 1843
References
Palaeonemertea
Nemertea families
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