Editing Vermes (section)

==Linnaeus==
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In Linnaeus's ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', the Vermes had the rank of [[class (biology)|class]], occupying the 6th (and last) slot of his animal systematics. It was divided into the following [[order (biology)|order]]s, all except the Lithophyta containing (in modern terms) organisms from a variety of phyla:<ref>{{cite book |last=Linnaeus |first=Carl |authorlink=Carl Linnaeus |title=Systema Naturae |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727554 |edition=10th |year=1758 |volume=v.1 |pages=641–643}}</ref>

* Intestina, including [[horsehair worm]]s, [[earthworm]]s, [[roundworm]]s, [[liver fluke]]s, [[leech]]es, [[hagfish]]es, and [[shipworm]]s
* Mollusca, including [[slug]]s, [[sea slug]]s, [[polychaete]]s, [[sea mouse|sea mice]], [[priapulid]]s, [[salp]]s, [[jellyfish]], [[starfish]], and [[sea urchin]]s
* Testacea, including [[chiton]]s, [[barnacle]]s, [[clam]]s, [[cockle (bivalve)|cockles]], [[nautilus]]es, [[snail]]s and [[serpulidae|serpulid worms]]
* Lithophyta, including various [[coral]]s
* Zoophyta, including [[bryozoa]]ns, [[coralline algae]], ''[[Hydra (genus)|Hydra]]'', [[sea pen]]s, [[tapeworm]]s, and ''[[Volvox]]''

Apart from the [[Mollusc]]a, understood very differently from the modern phylum of that name, Linnaeus included a very diverse and rather mismatched assemblage of animals in the categories. The Intestina group encompassed various [[parasite|parasitic]] animals, among them the [[hagfish]], which Linnaeus would have found in dead fish.  Shelled molluscs were placed in the Testacea, together with [[barnacle]]s and [[Tube worm (body plan)|tube worms]]. [[Cnidaria]]ns (jellyfish and corals), [[echinoderm]]s and [[Polychaeta|polychaetes]] were spread across the other orders.