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Phragmatopoma californica, commonly known as the sandcastle worm, the honeycomb worm [1] or the honeycomb tube worm, [2] is a reef-forming marine polychaete worm belonging to the family Sabellarididae. It is dark brown in color with a crown of lavender tentacles and has a length of up to about 7.5 centimeters (3.0 in). [3]
Lanice conchilega, commonly known as the sand mason worm, is a species of burrowing marine polychaete worm. It builds a characteristic tube which projects from the seabed, consisting of cemented sand grains and shell fragments with a fringe at the top. Polychaetes, or marine bristle worms, have elongated bodies divided into many segments.
After that the sand is kept loose by a current of water driven through the burrow from the hind end by the waves of contraction passing along the worm's body. Lugworms are not typically visible, but the casts produced by their burrowing make distinctive patterns in damp sand
Alitta virens (common names include sandworm, sea worm, and king ragworm; older scientific names, including Nereis virens, are still frequently used) is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud. They construct burrows of different shapes (I,U,J and Y) [2] They range from being very complex to very simple. Long term burrows are held ...
Lanice, (also known as the sand mason worm), is a genus of burrowing marine polychaetes (commonly referred to as "bristle worms") typically found in the littoral zone. A Lanice conchilega tube on the Dutch Wadden Sea shore. L. conchilega is a common sight on European beaches and in tide pools.
Abarenicola pacifica or the Pacific lugworm is a large species of polychaete worm found on the west coast of North America and also in Japan. The worms live out of sight in burrows under the sand and produce casts which are visible on the surface. Polychaetes, or marine bristle worms, have elongated bodies divided into many segments.
Sabellaria alveolata, (also known as the honeycomb worm), is a reef-forming polychaete. It is distributed around the Mediterranean Sea , and from the north Atlantic Ocean to south Morocco . It is also found in the British Isles at its northern limit in the northeast Atlantic. [ 2 ]
Alitta succinea (known as the pile worm, clam worm or cinder worm) [3] is a species of marine annelid in the family Nereididae (commonly known as ragworms or sandworms). [4] It has been recorded throughout the North West Atlantic, as well as in the Gulf of Maine and South Africa .