Echiura facts for kids
Quick facts for kids EchiuraTemporal range: Upper Carboniferous – Recent
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Echiura
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The Echiura, or spoon worms, are a small group of marine animals. They are often considered to be a group of annelids, although they lack the segmented structure found in other members of that group, and so may also be treated as a separate phylum.
However, phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences place echiurans and Sipuncula within the Annelida.
Images for kids
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Echiurus
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Ochetostoma erythrogrammon
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Characteristic forked proboscis of an echiurian worm in the Maldives
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Bonellia viridis, female
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A worm of the family Bonelliidae
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Ochetostoma erythrogrammon, family Echiuridae
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Arhynchite hayaoi, family Thalassematidae
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Urechis unicinctus, family Urechidae
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See also
In Spanish: Echiura para niños
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