Image of Limy tube worm
Description:
These skittish little worms will instantaneously retract their gill plumes into a calcareous tube following a shadow or other disturbance. The funnel-shaped operculum then blocks the tube's entrance. Gill plumes about 10 mm. Depth 10m.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Annelida (segmented worms)
- Sedentaria
- Serpulidae (calcareous tubeworms)
- Serpula
- Serpula vermicularis (Limy tube worm)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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