Sedentaria | |
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Examples of Sedentaria (clockwise from upper left corner): Sabellida, Echiura, Maldanomorpha, Clitellata, Terebelliformia, Siboglinidae. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Clade: | Sedentaria Lamarck 1818 |
Orders and families | |
Incertae sedis |
Sedentaria is a diverse clade of annelid worms. It is traditionally treated as a subclass of the paraphyletic class Polychaeta, but it is also a monophyletic group uniting several polychaetes and the monophyletic class Clitellata. It is the sister group of Errantia.[1]