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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

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Ralph O. Brinkhurst and Amanda F.L. Nemec; A comparison of phenetic and phylogenetic methods applied to the systematics of the Oligochaeta. Hydrobiologia 155:65-74, 1987

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A comparative study of naidid subfamilies shows that a combination of ordination, Jaccard/Average Linkage cluster analysis and Wagner parsimony provides a useful basis for a rational phylogeny but that this does not differ markedly from the original proposed by Sperber nearly four decades ago. Henning rules, modified by Wiley, permit a preliminary phylogeny and classification of the Annelida to be made by hand. An error in earlier versions suggested that the Dorydrilidae lacked prostate glands, and this is corrected.