Nemertea

Nemertea
Parborlasia corrugatus from the Ross Sea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Superphylum:	Lophotrochozoa
Phylum:	Nemertea Schultze, 1851
Synonyms
Rhyncocoela [1]

Nemertea is a phylum of invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms.^[1] Most of the 1,400 or so species are marine, with a few living in fresh water and a small number of terrestrial forms. They live in all marine habitats, and throughout the world's oceans.^[2] Alternative spellings for the phylum have included Nemertini and Nemertinea. Rhynchocoela is a name used primarily in North America but gradually abandoned since the 1980s.^[3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Nemertea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
2. ↑ J. Moore & R. Gibson (2001). Nemertea. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. pp. 4 pp. doi:10.1038/npg.els.0001586.
3. ↑ Barnes, Robert D. 1982. Invertebrate zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders. 252–262. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.