Nemertodermatidae is a family of wormlike animals in the phylum
Acoelomorpha
Acoelomorpha is a subphylum of very simple and small soft-bodied organism, soft-bodied animals with planula-like features which live in marine (ocean), marine or brackish waters. They usually live between grains of sediment, swimming as plankton, ...
. They are similar to the
flatworm
Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...
s of the phylum Platyhelminthes, and were traditionally classified as such.
These are hermaphroditic marine worms with ciliated bodies containing a "sack-like gut".
There are four genera:
Nemertodermatidae Steinböck, 1930.
''In'': Tyler, S. and T. Artois. World list of Acoelomorpha. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). 2014.
* '' 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'' is a genus of acoelomorphs belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in North Europe.
Species:
*''Sterreria boucheti''
*''Sterreria lundini''
*''Sterreria martindalei''
*''Sterreria monolit ...
''
** '' Sterreria martindalei''
** '' Sterreria monolithes''
** '' Sterreria papuensis''
** '' Sterreria psammicola'' (Sterrer 1970)
** ''Sterreria rubra
''Sterreria'' is a genus of acoelomorphs belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.
The species of this genus are found in North Europe.
Species:
*''Sterreria boucheti''
*''Sterreria lundini''
*''Sterreria martindalei''
*''Sterreria monolit ...
''
** '' Sterreria variabilis''
** '' Sterreria ylvae''
References
Nemertodermatida
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