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keyhole urchin spoon worm

Lissomyema mellita

Classification

The Echiura, or spoon worms, are a small group of marine animals. Once treated as a separate phylum, they are now considered to belong to Annelida. Annelids typically have their bodies divided into segments, but echiurans have secondarily lost their segmentation.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1