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==Modern==

After Linnaeus, and especially with the advent of [[Darwinism]], it became apparent that the Vermes animals are not closely related. Systematic works on [[phylum|phyla]] since Linnaeus continued to split up Vermes and sort the animals into natural systematic units.

Of the classes of Vermes proposed by Linnaeus, only [[Mollusca]] has been kept as a phylum, and its composition has changed almost entirely. Linnaeus's early classification of the [[soft-bodied organisms]] was revolutionary in its day. A number of the organisms classified as Vermes by Linnaeus were very poorly known, and a number of them were not even viewed as animals.