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Annelids

      The annelids (also called "ringed worms"), formally called Annelida (from French annelés "ringed ones", ultimately from Latin anellus "little ring"), are a large phylum of segmented worms, with over 17,000 modern species including ragworms, earthworms and leeches. They are found in marine environments from tidal zones to hydrothermal vents, in freshwater, and in moist terrestrial environments. Although most textbooks still use the traditional division into polychaetes (almost all marine), oligochaetes (which include earthworms) and leech-like species, research since 1997 has radically changed this scheme, viewing leeches as a sub-group of oligochaetes and oligochaetes as a sub-group of polychaetes. In addition, the Pogonophora, Echiura and Sipuncula, previously regarded as separate phyla, are now regarded as sub-groups of polychaetes. Annelids are considered members of the Lophotrochozoa, a "super-phylum" of protostomes that also includes molluscs, brachiopods, flatworms and nemerteans.

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Oenonites Hinde, 1879Tonarová et al (2012), fig. 5Vfoto PT5
Oenonites Hinde, 1879Tonarová et al. (2012), fig. 5.Yfoto PT22
Pernerites giganteusŠnajdr (1951), Pl. VII, fig. 7foto MŠ747
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Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966Tonarová et al. (2012), fig. 4Lfoto PT11
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Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966Tonarová et al. (2012), fig. 4.Qfoto PT11
Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966Tonarová et al. (2012), fig. 4.Rfoto PT11
Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966Tonarová et al. (2012), fig. 4.Pfoto PT11
Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966Tonarová et al. (2012), fig. 4.Ofoto PT11
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Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966AD Tonarová et al. (2012) PT15
Pistoprion Kielan - Jaworowska, 1966Tonarová et al. (2015), fig. 4.K PT23
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