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Horsehair Worms

Nematomorpha

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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body shape

Sorensen et al 2008
vermiform
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7921571

Definition: shaped like a worm

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(adult)

cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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described accepted species

Appeltans et al

5

geographic distribution

Mozambique Species List
Mozambique
URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973

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number of dna records in ggbn

GGBN data coverage

2

number of specimens in ggbn

GGBN data coverage

58

percent of marine species currently described

Appeltans et al

25

(min)
Appeltans et al

33

(max)

sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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total unknown marine species

Appeltans et al

41562

undiscovered marine morphospecies

Appeltans et al

41562