Horsehair Worms

Nematomorpha

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horsehair worms is a group of Animal. This group has been around since the Upper Cretaceous Epoch

URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/UpperCretaceous

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EOL has data for 16 attributes, including:

ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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shallow infaunal
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/shallowInfaunal
- Definition: Benthic organism that lives within the upper layers of unlithified (soft) substrate.
- Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Upper Cretaceous Epoch
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/UpperCretaceous
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
- Definition: The organism inhabits this environment or ecoregion.
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coastal
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000687
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known marine species
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DescribedAcceptedSpecies
- Definition: number of currently described and taxonomically accepted marine species in this clade (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)
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motility
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33596
- Definition: ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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slow moving
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/slowMoving
- Definition: Organism that moves actively, but generally at a slow pace
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number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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reproduction
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0000003
- Definition: The production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic material inherited from one or more parent organisms
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hermaphrodite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007197
- Definition: Multicellular organism that can produce both male and female gametes.
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sexually dimorphic
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002451
- Definition: A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's exhibiting a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species.
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female larger
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/female_larger
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #67. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Fairbairn
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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deposit feeder
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/depositFeeder
- Definition: an organism that eats particulate organic material in or on sediments.
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trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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parasite
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12806437
- Definition: organism adapted to living on or in another organism and causing harm to its host
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of horsehair worms

horsehair worms includes 2 children:

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