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Spiny Headed Worms

Acanthocephala

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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body shape

Alava and Aguirre 2005
vermiform
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7921571

Definition: shaped like a worm

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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have host

Brusca and Brusca, 2003
vertebrates
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/vertebrate

Definition: Members of the clade Vertebrata. http://eol.org/pages/2774383

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(adult)

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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trophic guild

Brusca and Brusca, 2003
intestinal parasite
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58339313

Definition: parasite that lives within the intestines of its host

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
vertivore
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/vertivore

Definition: carnivorous animal which eats primarily vertebrates

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