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Gnathostomulids are delicate wormlike animals less than 2 mm long . The first known species of Gnathostomulida (nath’o-sto-myu’lid-a) (Gr. gnathos, jaw, + stoma, mouth, L .ulus, dim. suffix) was observed in 1928 in the Baltic, but its description was not published until 1956. Since then jaw worms have been found …

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