Nemertea

The phylum Nemertea, whose members are known as nemerteans and are colloquially known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms, is a group of various unsegmented chiefly carnivorous worms. Nemerteans have long and typically brightly colored bodies with an extensible proboscises ("Nemertean", N. pag.).

External Links

• Ribbon Worms - Nemertea - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life

References

• "Nemertean." Def. 1. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged. 12th ed. 2014. Print.
• Asakawa, Manabu, Katsutoshi Ito, and Hiroshi Kajihara. "Highly Toxic Ribbon Worm Cephalothrix Simula Containing Tetrodotoxin in Hiroshima Bay, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan." Toxins 5.2 (2013): 376-95. Print.
• Thollesson, M., and J. L. Norenburg. "Ribbon Worm Relationships: A Phylogeny of the Phylum Nemertea." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 270.1513 (2003): 407-15. Print.
• Thornhill, Daniel J., Andrew R. Mahon, Jon L. Norenburg, and Kenneth M. Halanych. "Open-ocean Barriers to Dispersal: A Test Case with the Antarctic Polar Front and the Ribbon Worm Parborlasia Corrugatus (Nemertea: Lineidae)." Molecular Ecology 17.23 (2008): 5104-117. Print.