Nerilla antennata is 1–2 mm colourless meiofaunal polychaete. It is often found in aquaculture.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Polychaeta |
| Order: | Haplodrili |
| Family: | Nerillidae |
| Genus: | Nerilla |
| Species: | N. antennata
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| Binomial name | |
| Nerilla antennata Eduard Oscar Schmidt, 1848
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Morphology
editNerilla antennata has nine segments with chaetae and a prostomium with two very large clavate palpates and three segmented tentacles. On the prostomium it has four eyes and two ciliated nuchal organs on the side. The other segments have both dorsally – and ventrally parapods with simple chaetae. The peristomium has two segmented anal cirri.
Male specimens can be identified by three pairs of gonoducts at segment 6 - 8. Females have ovaries at segment 6 and oviducts at segment 7. [1][2]
Ecology
editThe marine species. Nerilla antennata lives interstitially (between grains of sand) and between algae. It is widely distributed with findings in European waters and around New Zealand. WoRMS The larval development has no pelagic stadium. [3]
Systematics
editGenerally the family Nerillidae has few segments, two palpates and up to three tentacles.[4] The family includes the 15 marine genera. WoRMS
References
edit- ^ Kirkegaard J. B. (1996). "Danmarks Fauna". 86 (Havbørsteorme. II. Sedantaria ed.). Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening: 245–246.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Westheide W. (1990). "Synopses of the Britiah Fauna". 2 (Polychaetes: Interstitial Families ed.). Universal Book Services for the Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association: 56–57.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Kirkegaard J. B. (1996). "Danmarks Fauna". 86 (Havbørsteorme. II. Sedantaria ed.). Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening: 245–246.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Higgins R. P. and Thiel H. (1992). "Introduction to the Study of Meiofauna". Smithsonian Institution Press: 334.
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