Nemertodermatidae
Family of acoelomorphs
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nemertodermatidae is a family of wormlike animals in the phylum Acoelomorpha. They are similar to the flatworms of the phylum Platyhelminthes, and were traditionally classified as such.
| Nemertodermatidae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Three Meara stichopi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Xenacoelomorpha |
| Class: | Nemertodermatida |
| Family: | Nemertodermatidae Steinböck, 1930 |
| Genera | |
|
See text | |
These are hermaphroditic marine worms with ciliated bodies containing a "sack-like gut".[1]
There are four genera:[2]
- Meara
- Meara stichopi Westblad 1949
- Nemertinoides
- Nemertinoides elongatus Riser 1987
- Nemertinoides glandulosum
- Nemertinoides wolfgangi
- Nemertoderma
- Nemertoderma bathycola Steinböck 1930
- Nemertoderma westbladi (Westblad) Steinböck, 1938
- Sterreria
- Sterreria boucheti
- Sterreria lundini
- Sterreria martindalei
- Sterreria monolithes
- Sterreria papuensis
- Sterreria psammicola (Sterrer 1970)
- Sterreria rubra
- Sterreria variabilis
- Sterreria ylvae
