Acorn worm
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The acorn worms or Enteropneusta are a hemichordate class of invertebrates. The closest non-hemichordate relatives of the Enteropneusta are the echinoderms. There are 111 known species of acorn worm i
Acorn worm on the ocean floor
Acorn worm life cycle by M. Singh
Pterobranchia
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Pterobranchia, members of which are often called pterobranchs, is a class of small worm-shaped animals. They belong to the Hemichordata, and live in secreted tubes on the ocean floor. Pterobranchia fe
Acorn worm
…the water column, evidently to drift to new foraging sites. It is assumed that the ancestors of acorn worms used to live in tubes like their relatives Pterobranchia, but that they eventually started to live a safer and more sheltered existence in sediment burrows instead. The body length normally range from 2…
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