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Chaetopterus
Chaetopterus or the parchment worm or parchment tube worm is a genus of marine polychaete worm that lives in a tube it constructs in sediments or attaches to a rocky or coral reef substrate. The common name arises from the parchment-like appearance of the tubes that house these worms. Parchment tube worms are filter feeders and spend their adult lives in their tubes, unless the tube is damaged or destroyed. They are planktonic in their juvenile...
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Fairy Tubeworm
speciesChaetopterus variopedatus
Chaetopterus dewysee
speciesChaetopterus dewysee
Chaetopterus pergamentaceus
speciesChaetopterus pergamentaceus
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus
speciesChaetopterus pugaporcinus
Chaetopterus luteus
speciesChaetopterus luteus
Chaetopterus aduncus
speciesChaetopterus aduncus
Chaetopterus charlesdarwinii
speciesChaetopterus charlesdarwinii
Chaetopterus galapagensis
speciesChaetopterus galapagensis
Chaetopterus macropus
speciesChaetopterus macropus
Chaetopterus longipes
speciesChaetopterus longipes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 171303.