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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.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annelid


 

PT5A
Oenonites jennyensis Eriksson, 1997 PT5
PT5A
Oenonites olavi Eriksson, 1997 PT5
PT5C
Oenonites olavi Eriksson, 1997 PT5
PT9A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT9
PT7A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT7
PT22G
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT22
PT22G
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT22
PT11A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT11
PT11A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT11
PT11A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT11
PT9A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT9
PT9A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT9
PT7A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT7
PT11A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT11
PT5A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT5
PT5C
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT5
PT9A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT9
PT5C
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT5
PT5A
Oenonites Hinde, 1879 PT5
MS_747
Pernerites giganteus MŠ747

In the Virtual Museum there are total 390 samples

Virtual museum of the Czech Geological Survey, www.geology.cz, (C) Czech Geological Survey, 2011, v.0.99 [13.12.2011]