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One common way this species spreads is through the release of bait worms into the habitat. It is a "nightcrawler", an earthworm used as fishing bait, and one of several species sold in American bait shops as "red wigglers". [3] It can often be found in shipments of worms labelled as another species, such as Lumbricus terrestris or L. rubellus. [10]
Allolobophora chlorotica (commonly known as the green worm) [3] is a species of earthworm that feeds and lives in soil. This species stands out from other earthworms due to the presence of three pairs of sucker-like discs on the underside of the clitellum .
Eunicidae are economically valuable as bait in both recreational and commercial fishing. [7] [8] Commercial bait-farming of Eunicidae can have adverse ecological impacts. [9] Bait-farming can deplete worm and associated fauna population numbers, [10] damage local intertidal environments [11] and introduce alien species to local aquatic ...
Scolelepis squamata is a slender, bluish-green worm with a maximum length of about 14 cm (5.5 in) and over two hundred segments when fully grown. The prostomium (head) is diamond-shaped and has four eyes, arranged in a trapezoid fashion, two long slender palps, and no central antenna.
The female worm has a sac-like trunk with a length of about 73 mm (2.9 in) and a width of 22 mm (0.9 in). In front of the mouth is an extensible proboscis of about 63 mm (2.5 in) with a forked tip. The proboscis has a ciliated groove on the underside along which food particles are passed to the mouth.
Bonellia viridis, the green spoonworm, is a marine worm (class Polychaeta, phylum Annelida) noted for displaying exceptional sexual dimorphism and for the biocidal properties of a pigment in its skin.