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Vermes n. pl. : An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers.

Vermes n. pl. : A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.

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Taxonomy
Vermes, animals, Carolus Linnaeus, free encyclopedia, molluscs, primitive, Mollusca, the animals, search, invertebrate animals, mismatched, assemblage, parasitic, jellyfish, corals, vertebrate, advent, phylum.

Defination from the web:
Vermes-animals are not at all closely related. ... Of the classes of Vermes proposed by Linnaeus, only Mollusca (the molluscs) has been kept as a phylum, and its composition has changed ... 


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