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Caudofoveata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Subkingdom:Metazoa
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Caudofoveata
Families
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Caudofoveata is a small class of the phylum Mollusca, also known as Chaetodermomorpha. The class is often combined with Solenogastres and termed Aplacophora.

Caudofoveata are small (1-30 mm), mainly deep sea molluscs. They are worm-like, lacking shells or distinct muscular feet; they instead have scales and calcareous spines called sclerites, for movement. They live by burrowing through soft sediment, and feed by lying vertically in the sediment with just the mouth-parts exposed and taking in passing organic detritus. During sexual reproduction, the female produces eggs which are fertilized and brooded, and then the larvae swim freely.

Families

  • Chaetodermatidae
  • Limifossoridae
  • Prochaetodermatidae
  • Falcidentidae
  • Metachaetodermatidae
  • Scutopidae
There are about 15 genera, with about 100 known species.
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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class is the rank in the scientific classification of organisms in biology below Phylum and above Order.

For example, Mammalia is the class used in the classification of dogs, whose phylum is Chordata (animals with notochords) and order is Carnivora (mammals that eat meat).
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phylum (Greek Φῦλον plural: Φῦλα phyla) is a taxon in the rank below kingdom and above class.
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Caudofoveata

Families
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Caudofoveata is a small class of the phylum Mollusca, also known as Chaetodermomorpha. The class is often combined with Solenogastres and termed Aplacophora.
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Neomenimorpha (Solenogastres)

Families
  • Acanthomeniidae
  • Amphimeniidae
  • Dondersiidae
  • Drepanomeniidae
  • Epimeniidae
  • Gymnomeniidae
  • Hemimeniidae
  • Heteroherpiidae
  • Imeroherpiidae
  • Lepidomeniidae
  • Macellomeniidae

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Aplacophora

Subclasses and families
  • Subclass Chaetodermomorpha (Caudofoveata)
  • Chaetodermidae
  • Falcidentidae

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Distances shorter than 1 mm
  • 1.0 mm is equal to
  • 1/1000th of a metre
  • 0.

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A sclerite (Greek skleros meaning "hard") is a hardened body part. The term is used in various branches of biology for various structures including hardened portions of sponges, but it is most commonly used for the hardened portions of arthropod exoskeletons.
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Sexual reproduction is a union that results in increasing genetic diversity of the offspring. It is characterized by two processes: meiosis, involving the halving of the number of chromosomes; and fertilisation, involving the fusion of two gametes and the restoration of the
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