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Hypoderma :: Hypoderma (n.) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates..

Tubivalve :: Tubivalve (n.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula..

Elytrum :: Elytrum (n.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.

Nereidian :: Nereidian (n.) Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families..

Telotrocha :: Telotrocha (n.) An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.

Lugworm :: Lugworm (n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm..

Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..

Lumbricus :: Lumbricus (n.) A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm..

Errantia :: Errantia (n. pl.) A group of chaetopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chaetopoda..

Tubicolae :: Tubicolae (n. pl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella..

Capitibranchiata :: Capitibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

Annelida :: Annelida (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda..

Strobile :: Strobilation (n.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian..

Tomopteris :: Tomopteris (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa..

Scaleback :: Scaleback (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda..

Scale :: Scale (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera..

Vermes :: Vermes (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers..

Chaetopoda :: Chaetopoda (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species..

Tubeworm :: Tubeworm (n.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae.

Anarthropoda :: Anarthropoda (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda..

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