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WoRMS taxon details

Echiura 
AphiaID: 1269

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1
Rank Phylum
Parent Animalia
Sources  basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English spoon worms  [details]
Swedish skedmaskar  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Class Echiura incertae sedis
Class Echiuroidea
Environment marine
Feedingtype  deposit feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Editor's comment: The image below may be an echiuran but there are too few characters visible in the photograph to be certain. [details]
Image 
Echiura
Echiura
added on 2012-12-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Laure de Montety ()
qualitystatus: checked by Pilger, John F. on 2012-12-28 14:44:22
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1269
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Echiura. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1269 on 2013-05-25
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