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Heteronemertea
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Heteronemertea

Heteronemertea is a monophyletic order of about 500 species of nemertean worm. It contains genera such as Lineus and Cerebratulus, and includes the largest and most muscular nemerteans.

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6 branches of this order, most-observed first

Lineidae

familyLineidae

Valenciniidae

familyValenciniidae

Gorgonorhynchidae

familyGorgonorhynchidae

Polybrachiorhynchus

genusPolybrachiorhynchus

Mixolineidae

familyMixolineidae

Panorhynchidae

familyPanorhynchidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 791020.