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Subclass Chaetodermomorpha (Caudofoveata) Family Chaetodermidae Family Falcidentidae Family Limifossoridae Family Metachaetodermatidae Family Prochaetodermatidae Family Scutopidae Subclass Neomeniomorpha (Solenogastres) Family Acanthomeniidae Family Amphimeniidae Family Dondersiidae Family Drepanomeniidae Family Epimeniidae Family Gymnomeniidae Family Hemimeniidae Family Heteroherpiidae Family Imeroherpiidae Family Lepidomeniidae Family Macellomeniidae Family Meiomeniidae Family Neomeniidae Family Perimeniidae Family Phyllomeniidae Family Proneomeniidae Family Rhipidoherpiidae Family Rhopalomeniidae Family Sandalomeniidae Family Simrothiellidae Family Strophomeniidae Family Syngenoherpiidae

Aplacophora occurs as class of exclusively benthal marine mollusks found in all oceans of the world. A personal is Twenty-eight families and about 320 species. It is microscopic (there are no yearn than Pentad cm), cylindric & worm-cringing. It may still email the length of Thirty cm.

Habitat
Solenogaster chiefly tunnel into a substrate in water regions deeper than Xx m. These metal money could email densities as much as Quaternity or even Phoebe specimens by the m².

Taxonomy
This class wwhen another time classified as sea cucumbers in the echinoderms. Inside 1987, they were officially recognized when mollusks and given their own class.

cs:Červovci de:Wurmmollusken es:Aplacophora fr:Solénogastres pt:Aplacophora

The Taxonomy of the Aplacophora
Deep-Sea Mollusks

Class Aplacophora


Aplacophora
Links to aplacophoran websites from the Man and Mollusc website.






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