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Ampharete octocirrata britannica Mc Intosh 1922

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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appendages

Pettibone 1982
biramous parapodia
URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/biramous_parapodia

Definition: parapodia (paired fleshy lateral processes) that end in two branches

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body shape

Pettibone 1982
vermiform
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7921571

Definition: shaped like a worm

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ecomorphological guild

Pettibone 1982
tubicolous
URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/tubicolous

Definition: aquatic organisms that construct and inhabit simple unbranched vertical shafts with only one opening to the surface. These are primarily above-sediment filter-feeders, surface deposit-feeders, and subsurface deposit-feeders (head-down, conveyor-belt feeders)

Attribution: Macrofaunal Burrows and Irrigation in Marine Sediment: Microbiological and Biogeochemical Interactions. Available from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265483886_Macrofaunal_Burrows_and_Irrigation_in_Marine_Sediment_Microbiological_and_Biogeochemical_Interactions [accessed Feb 26 2020].

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