Sedentaria

Sedentaria is a diverse clade of annelid worms. It is traditionally treated as a subclass of the paraphyletic class Polychaeta, but it is also a monophyletic group uniting several polychaetes and the monophyletic class Clitellata. It is the sister group of Errantia.

Sedentaria
Examples of Sedentaria (clockwise from upper left corner): Sabellida, Echiura, Maldanomorpha, Clitellata, Terebelliformia, Siboglinidae.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Sedentaria
Lamarck 1818
Orders and families

Incertae sedis

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