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Figure 1.  Diagram showing generalized anatomy of Cerebratulus, a typical unarmed ribbon worm.  Some species of ribbon worms are armed with barb-like structures on the end of the proboscis that assist in defense and prey capture.  Redrawn from Barnes 1980.