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Horsehair Worms

Nematomorpha

Nematomorpha (Horsehair Worms) is a group of animals. There are 361 species of horsehair worms, in 19 genera and 3 families. This group has been around since the Upper Cretaceous Epoch. Reproduction is dioecious. Horsehair Worms are slow moving animals.

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

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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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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/slowMoving
Definition: Organism that moves actively, but generally at a slow pace

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EOL has data for 13 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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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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number of fossil occurrences
- 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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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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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. View this species on GBIF

horsehair worms Habitats

The environments in which many horsehair worms species are known to live. Select an environment to see its horsehair worms species checklist.

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Horsehair Worm Habitats

The environments in which many horsehair worms species are known to live. Select an environment to see its horsehair worms species checklist.

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