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What are the salient features exhibited by Polychaetes?

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1) These are commonly known as bristle worms.
2) All are marine. Many are burrowing, others are free swimming or crawling or tubicolous.
3) Head is distinct with sensory structures like eyes, antennae, palps, cirri.
4) Clitellum is absent.
5) Each segment has a pair of lateral apaendages called parapodia in which bundles of setae are arranged.
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