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  2. Earthworm - Wikipedia

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    Some species of earthworm can even use the prehensile prostomium to grab and drag items such as grasses and leaves into their burrow. An adult earthworm develops a belt-shaped glandular swelling, called the clitellum, which covers several segments toward the front part of the animal. This is part of the reproductive system and produces egg ...

  3. Peristalsis - Wikipedia

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    A simplified image showing Earthworm movement via peristalsis The earthworm is a limbless annelid worm with a hydrostatic skeleton that moves by peristalsis. Its hydrostatic skeleton consists of a fluid-filled body cavity surrounded by an extensible body wall.

  4. Oligochaeta - Wikipedia

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    Oligochaetes are well-segmented worms and most have a spacious body cavity (coelom) used as a hydroskeleton.They range in length from less than 0.5 mm (0.02 in) up to 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft) in the 'giant' species such as the giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis) and the Mekong worm (Amynthas mekongianus).

  5. Lumbricus terrestris - Wikipedia

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    However, 'earthworm' can be a source of confusion since, in most of the world, other species are more typical. For example, through much of the unirrigated temperate areas of the world, the "common earthworm" is actually Aporrectodea (=Allolobophora) trapezoides, which in those areas is a similar size and dark colour to L. terrestris.

  6. Leech - Wikipedia

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    Leech anatomy in cross-section: the body is solid, the coelom (body cavity) reduced to channels, with circular, longitudinal, and transverse muscles making the animal strong and flexible. [ 26 ] Like most annelids, with a few exceptions like Sipuncula , Echiura and Diurodrilus , [ 27 ] the leech is a segmented animal, but unlike other annelids ...

  7. Clitellum - Wikipedia

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    Earthworm with clitellum lablelled. Close-up of the clitellum of a Lumbricus rubellus. The clitellum is a thickened glandular and non-segmented section of the body wall near the head in earthworms and leeches that secretes a viscid sac in which eggs are stored. [1]

  8. Texas warning of "maneater" screwworms that lay eggs in flesh

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    Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded animal."

  9. Coelom - Wikipedia

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    The coelom (or celom) [1] is the main body cavity in many animals [2] and is positioned inside the body to surround and contain the digestive tract and other organs.In some animals, it is lined with mesothelium.

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