Polychaeta Gallery

Sand tube-building annelid fanworm, Pectinaria belgica

Sand tube-building annelid fanworm, Pectinaria belgica (Nereis pectinata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

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BIO16289

Christmas tree worm
Spirobranchus giganteus
showing the twin crowns that are specialised mouth parts. Bores into living coral before secreting its tube with which it protects its body
Malaysia

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Bristle worm head, SEM

Bristle worm head, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Bristle worms (polychaeta) are free-swimming marine annelids (segmented worms). They are covered in chitinous bristles (yellow) called chaetae, which are used for locomotion. Also seen are sensory tentacles (pink)

© STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

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