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    The document summarizes key characteristics of annelids, or segmented worms. Annelids are bilaterally symmetrical, coelomate invertebrates with multiple body segments. Each segment contains the same organs and parapodia for locomotion. They have a closed circulatory system and triploblastic anatomy. The phylum contains over 17,000 species including polychaetes, oligochaetes, and hirudinea (leeches). Polychaetes live in marine environments and have many chaetae bearing parapodia, while oligochaetes include terrestrial earthworms and lack distinct parapodia. Leeches are mostly freshwater and use suckers to move like inchworms,

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    The document summarizes key characteristics of annelids, or segmented worms. Annelids are bilaterally symmetrical, coelomate invertebrates with multiple body segments. Each segment contains the same organs and parapodia for locomotion. They have a closed circulatory system and triploblastic anatomy. The phylum contains over 17,000 species including polychaetes, oligochaetes, and hirudinea (leeches). Polychaetes live in marine environments and have many chaetae bearing parapodia, while oligochaetes include terrestrial earthworms and lack distinct parapodia. Leeches are mostly freshwater and use suckers to move like inchworms,

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    The document summarizes key characteristics of annelids, or segmented worms. Annelids are bilaterally symmetrical, coelomate invertebrates with multiple body segments. Each segment contains the same organs and parapodia for locomotion. They have a closed circulatory system and triploblastic anatomy. The phylum contains over 17,000 species including polychaetes, oligochaetes, and hirudinea (leeches). Polychaetes live in marine environments and have many chaetae bearing parapodia, while oligochaetes include terrestrial earthworms and lack distinct parapodia. Leeches are mostly freshwater and use suckers to move like inchworms,

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     The annelids are also known as the ringed worms or segmented

    worms.
     They are a large phylum, with over 17,000 extant species including
    rag worms, earthworms, and leeches.
    GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
     Annelids are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic, coelomate,
    invertebrate organisms.
     Annelid forms consists of multiple segments.
    Each segment has the same sets of organs and has a pair of
    parapodia
     The parapodia are used for locomotion.
    • They have a septa which is made of chitin which separates segments.
    • The septa makes the blood to circulate entirely within blood vessels
    and the septa can be used in peristalsis.
    • Body cavity is a true coelom and is protostomal that is the head
    develops first.
    • Has a true closed circulatory system.
    • Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
    • Has a nervous system with an interior nerve ring, ganglia and a
    ventral nerve chord.
    • Each ganglion is present per segment.
    • Reproduction is normally sexual.
    • Has no true respiratory organs.
    • They are soft bodied.
    THE PARAPODIUM FOR MOVEMENT
    DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
    • There are three classes of Phylum Annelida namely: polychaeta,
    oligochaeta and hirudenea.
    CLASS POLYCHAETA
    • They have paired appendages or parapodia that bear many bristles called
    chaetae made of chitin.
    • Appendages may be present or absent on the head.
    • Have separate sexes and the gametes are discharged directly into the water
    where fertilisation and development occurs.
    • They are marine, found at all depths of the ocean.
    • The head is relatively well developed compared with other annelids.
    • Head has 2 to 4 pairs of eyes, although some are blind, a pair of antennae,
    tentacle-like palps and a pair of pits lied with cilia.
    • For example lugworm (Arenicola marina) and sandworm or clam worm
    (Alitta).
    • They can be parasites, scavengers, herbivores, predators and filter
    feeders
    THE BODY DIAGRAM OF POLYCHAETA
    • The outer surface of the body wall consist of simple columnar
    epithelium covered by a thin cuticle followed by thin layer of
    connective tissue, layer of circular muscle of longitudinal muscle and
    a peritoneum surround the body cavity.
    CLASS OLIGOCHAETA
    • They live in marine, fresh water and terrestrial habitats.
    • They are normally hermaphrodites with internal fertilisation and
    complex reproductive organs.
    • A few species are parasitic but most re free living.
    • They have chaeta but with no parapodia and movement is by
    burrowing with peristalsis.
    • They have no distinct head region.
    • They deposit feeders (earthworms) .
    • They can be herbivores or scavengers.
    CLASS HIRUDINEA
    • Commonly known as leeches
    • Mostly fresh water, some marine
    • They have suckers on both ends and so move like inchworms
    • 3\4 are blood sucking ectoparasites and 1\4 are predators
    • They are hermaphroditic

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