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priapus worms

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | | © A Dictionary of Zoology 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

priapus worms See PRIAPULIDA.

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Priapulida
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Priapulida Phylum comprising the priapus worms, known from Cambrian times (e.g. Ottoia from the *Burgess Shale, Canada), and ranging up to the present.
Burgess Shale and Ediacaran Faunas
Book article from: Animal Sciences ...the Burgess Shale include a number of wormlike and segmented organisms, some of which were assigned to novel phyla (phyla Priapulida and Onychophora) while others remain "unclassified to this day." Opabinia was a five-eyed, 3-inch-long creature...
Cambrian Explosion
Book article from: Animal Sciences ...and Chordata [vertebrates]), a number of other phyla were created and have since become extinct (including phyla Priapulida, Onychophora, and some unclassifiables). The Burgess Shale (in British Columbia, Canada) and the Chingjiang (in Yunnan...
priapus worms
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology priapus worms See PRIAPULIDA .
Loricifera
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology ...one ventral , two lateral) and has recurved spines on the anterior end. The anus is terminal. Sexes are separate; larvae resemble small adults. The phylum appears to be related to the Priapulida (priapus worms) and Kinorhyncha .

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