Facts: Ribbon Worms (Nemertea)

Quick facts about these adorable unsegmented marine worms that can be longer than blue whales! Ribbon worms (Nemertea, proboscis worms, Nemertean worms). Ribbon worm facts! They can swallow prey whole.

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References and Helpful Links
https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5169/1/Thi2001f.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640541/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-marine-ribbon-worms-3156969/
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ribbon-worm-mud-flats
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Map%3A_Raven_Biology_12th_Edition/33%3A_Protostomes/33.05%3A_Ribbon_Worms_(Nemertea)

Natural History. United States, DK Publishing, 2021.

Lippson, Alice Jane, and Lippson, Robert L.. Life in the Chesapeake Bay. United Kingdom, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Sept, J. Duane. The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest. Canada, Harbour Publishing Company Limited, 2019.

Sirenko, B. I., and Buzhinskai︠a︡, G. N. Illustrated Keys to Free-living Invertebrates of Eurasian Arctic Seas and Adjacent Deep Waters: Nemertea, Cephalorhyncha, Oligochaeta, Hirudinida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula, Phoronida, and Brachiopoda. United States, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2009.
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Music used
Deep Blue - by Jonny Easton
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Images Licensed Under Creative Commons
By Christopher Laumer - Flickr.com, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15588457
By Rickard Zerpe - Five-lined Ribbon Worm (Baseodiscus quinquelineatus), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75849292

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Bruno C. Vellutini, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lineus_longissimus_feeding.ogv
Bruno C. Vellutini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62FOELfLc40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Pb3XpYnCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5nev_ogzqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3brcxdAJEY
Invertebrate Biology Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDPC5V0KK6o
LabNemertea https://vimeo.com/13829966

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