Bonellia

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Bonellia

a genus of invertebrate animals of the class Echiuroidea of the subkingdom Articulata. There are several species, none of which are found in the waters of the USSR. The members of the species B. viridis have a sharply expressed sexual dimorphism. The body of the female is cylindrical (up to 7 cm long), and it has a long proboscis, divided into two parts at the end, which serves to grip soil along with bits of food (vegetable remains). A special pigment gives it a green color, which is protective. The body of the male is not more than 1–3 mm long and has a very simple structure. It lives as a parasite in the sexual ducts of the female; this fact was first discovered by the Russian scientist A. O. Kovalevskii in 1870. The species B. viridis is widely distributed in the coastal region of the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Europe. It lives in shallow waters in the hollows formed in stones.

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Shaping the things to come: ontogeny of lophotrochozoan neuromuscular systems and the Tetraneuralia concept

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We also compare the occurrence of dwarf males in Osedax with other animals (Ghiselin, 1974; Vollrath, 1998), particularly with the annelid echiuran Bonellia, which is known to have environmentally determined sex (Agius, 1979).

Acquisition of dwarf male "harems" by recently settled females of Osedax roseus n. sp. (Siboglinidae; Annelida)

Sur un noveau type de symbiose chez la Bonellie (Bonellia viridis, Echiurien).

The incidence and morphology of subcuticular bacteria in the echinoderm fauna of New Zealand

Evidence for predetermination is seen in Bonellia viridis.

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