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Donald J. Reish
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LOCATION: Long Beach, CA, United States
Emeritus Professor of Biology, California State University, Long Beach. Author of Marine Life of Southern California.
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Annelid, any member of a phylum of invertebrate animals that are characterized by the possession of a body cavity (or coelom), movable bristles (or setae), and a body divided into segments by transverse rings, or annulations, from which they take their name. The coelom is reduced in leeches, and…
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