Invertebrate Diversity
Phylum Nemertea

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Characteristics

• Body usually very long, flattened
• Unsegmented
• Complete gut (separate mouth and anus)
• Closed circulatory system
• Retractable proboscis posterior to gut; housed in cavity: rhynchocoel (coelom)
• Mostly marine, a few in fresh water