Sipuncula: characteristics
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- Group containing hundreds of unsegmented marine worms
- Asexual and Sexual reproducers, asexual is uncommon
- Reproduce asexually via transverse fission, followed by regeneration
- Most species are dioecious, gametes are produced in coelomic lining
- Gametes picked up by metanephridia system and released into marine environment, process of fertilization takes place
- Some species hatch directly into the adult form, some have a delayed process