Property
Contains rings called annules
Habitat
Aquatic or
Terrestrial or
Parasitic or
Free living
LOO
Organ system
BP
Tube within tube
Symmetry
Bilateral
GL
Triploblastic
Coelom
Eucoelomate
Metamerism
Present
Notochord
No
DS
Complete DS
RS
No.
Earthworm respires through moist cuticle
CS
Closed CS
ES
Nephridia (excretion plus osmoregulation)
Locomotion
Parapodia, setae, circular and longitudinal muscles
Nervous system
Double ventral solid nerve cord with paired ganglions
Reproduction
Only sexual reproduction
Sexes
Unisexual - NEREIS (aquatic, aka sandworm)
Bisexual - PHERETIMA (earthworm)
HIRUDINARIA (Blood sucking leech)
EXAMPLES
NEREIS (aquatic, aka sandworm)
PHERETIMA (earthworm)
HIRUDINARIA (Blood sucking leech)