pogonophorans

pogonophorans
n.; n. pl. [Gr. pogonophoros, wearing a beard]
A phylum of sedentary marine worms that are the only nonparasitic metazoans that lack a mouth, gut or anus, and are commonly called beard worms.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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