Tag: Polychaete

15/150: Pretty underwater feather dusters or worms with tentacle eyes? Why not both!

Feb 9, 2017

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by

Kate Perez

in #Biodiversity150

Animalia: Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellida: Sabellidae: Eudistylia: Eudistylia vancouveri (Kinberg, 1866) You wouldn’t expect that the beautiful Vancouver feather duster (Eudistylia vancouveri) is a type of worm, but that’s exactly what it is. It belongs to a class of segmented bristle worms called Polychaeta within the family Sabellidae, AKA feather duster worms. They are sedentary marine…