| Acoelomorpha | |
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| The acoelomorph Waminoa sp. (orange structure) on the Plerogyra sp. coral (whitish bubbles). | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Xenacoelomorpha |
| Subphylum: | Acoelomorpha Ehlers, 1985 |
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Acoelomorpha is a subphylum of very simple and small soft-bodied animals with planula-like features which live in marine or brackish waters. They usually live between grains of sediment, swimming as plankton, or crawling on other organisms, such as algae and corals.[1] With the exception of two acoel freshwater species, all known acoelomorphs are marine.[2]
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- ^ Harzsch, Steffen; Purschke, Günter (2016-01-01). Structure and evolution of invertebrate nervous systems. Oxford University Press. pp. 56–61. ISBN 978-0-19-968220-1. OCLC 951605913.