Species Gallery (Annelida)
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Acromegalomma vesiculosum.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Line drawing of Alkmaria romijni.
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Amalosoma eddystonense proboscis sticking out of the sand.
Copyright: Lin Baldock
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Aphrodita aculeata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Aphrodita aculeata on seabed at Firestone bay, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Aphrodita aculeata on seabed.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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A stranded sea mouse Aphrodita aculeata.
Copyright: Stephen Chalk
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A stranded sea mouse Aphrodita aculeata.
Copyright: Stephen Chalk
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Close up of Aphrodita aculeata head.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Ventral view of Aphrodita aculeata.
Copyright: Sue Scott
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Specimen of Arenicola marina with proboscis everted.
Copyright: Dr Matt Bentley
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Arenicola marina burrow entrance.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Arenicola marina casts and burrow entrance.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Arenicola marina casts at Mount Batten in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Arenicola marina casts.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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A lug worm out of the sediment.
Copyright: Tabitha Pearman
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Aggregation of Arenicola marina casts at 5m depth.
Copyright: Paul Newland
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Line drawing of Armandia cirrhosa.
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Spiral fan worm Bispira volutacornis on rock covered by Dendrodoa grossularia.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Bispira volutacornis at Firestone Bay, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Bispira volutacornis at Firstone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Bispira volutacornis in Lyme Bay, Devon.
Copyright: Robert Keen
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A number of Bispira volutacornis worms feeding.
Copyright: Paula Ferris
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Spiral fan worm Bispira volutacornis at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Branchiomma bombyx removed from its tube.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
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Parchment worm removed from its tube, showing ventral surfaces of body.
Copyright: Jack Sewell
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Parchment worm removed from its tube, showing three distinct body regions.
Copyright: Jack Sewell
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Parchment worm removed from its tube, showing ventral surfaces of body.
Copyright: Jack Sewell
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Tubes of Chaetopterus variopedatus.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Chaetozone setosa.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Cirratulus spp.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Eulalia viridis.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Eulalia viridis crawling across a Sabellaria alveolata reef.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Eulalia viridis eggs.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
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Eulalia viridis on a rocky shore.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Close-up of Ficopomatus enigmaticus encrusting a marina buoy.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Ficopomatus enigmaticus growing on a buoy in a marina.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Filograna implexa clump.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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Filograna implexa individuals.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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Close up of Filograna implexa individual.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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Hediste diversicolor at Wembury Point, Devon.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
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Hediste diversicolor on gravel with a 1 penny coin for scale.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Hediste diversicolor on the shore with green seaweed - view 1.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Hediste diversicolor on the shore with green seaweed - view 2.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Janua heterostropha.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
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Janua heterostropha frontal view of feeding tentacles and operculum.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
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Lagis koreni highlighting pink iridescence and golden anterior chaetae.
Copyright: Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd
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Lagis koreni removed from sediment tube.
Copyright: Misjeel Decleer
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Anterior end of Lagis koreni, contained within sediment tube.
Copyright: Dr Hans Hillewaert
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Intact conical sediment tube of Lagis koreni.
Copyright: Dr Leen Vandepitte
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The worm Lagis koreni in sediment.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Lanice conchilega, sand mason worm.
Copyright: Sue Scott
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Lanice conchilega bed.
Copyright: Sue Scott
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Lanice conchilega on St Martins beach.
Copyright: Tabitha Pearman
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A sand mason worm tube.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Ejected material from Lanice conchilega.
Copyright: Paul Newland
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Radiating tentacles of Lanice conchilega.
Copyright: Paul Newland
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White tentacles of Lanice conchilega.
Copyright: Paul Newland
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Magelona filiformis
Copyright: Dr Katie Mortimer-Jones
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Magelona filiformis highlighting transparent body wall and pale pink gut.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Head and first segments of Magelona mirabilis
Copyright: Dr Katie Mortimer-Jones
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Malmgrenia lunulata found intertidally under a stone on a beach.
Copyright: Nigel Sawyer
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Myxicola infundibulum.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Myxicola infundibulum in coarse substrata at Firestone Bay in the Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Notomastus latericeus.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Ophelia borealis highlighting cone-shaped prostomium.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Owenia fusiformis.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Close up of Owenia fusiformis.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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Polydora ciliata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Polydora ciliata with Hymeniacidon perleve
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Carpets of Polydora ciliata boring in limestone rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Protula tubularia on the wreck of the Rosehill in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Protula tubularia in the Scilly Isles.
Copyright: Robert Keen
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Protula tubularia off Mewstone, Plymouth. 28 m depth.
Copyright: Paul Newland
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Three Sabella pavonina with tentacles fanned out.
Copyright: Sue Daly
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Sabella pavonina at a few metres depth.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
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Sabella pavonina at Strome Narrows, Lochcarrin in Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Sabella pavonina at Strome Narrows, Lochcarrin in Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Sabella pavonina at Strome Narrows, Lochcarrin in Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Sabella pavonina at Strome Narrows, Lochcarrin in Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Close up of tentacles.
Copyright: Sue Scott
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Fanworm in coarse sand
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Rock covered entirely with tubes of Sabellaria alveolata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Sabellaria alveolata larva about seven and a half weeks old. Dorsal view.
Copyright: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
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Sabellaria alveolata openings.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
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Sabellaria alveolata reef at Dunraven, Southerndown, south Wales.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Sabellaria alveolata removed from tubes.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Sabellaria alveolata surround a coastal defence bollard.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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A Sabellaria alveolata mound.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
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Close up of tube porches.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Mucus and first sandy tube of early bottom stage of Sabellaria alveolata Linnaeus (x39).
Copyright: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
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Small hummock of Sabellaria alveolata at Dunraven, Southerndown, south Wales.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
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Sublittoral Sabellaria alveolata at Nash Point
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Ventral view of early bottom stage of Sabellaria alveolata Linnaeus. Age just over seven weeks after fertilization.
Copyright: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
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Sabellaria spinulosa tubes.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
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Sabellaria spinulosa larva about two months old. Dorsal view.
Copyright: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
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Sabellaria spinulosa tubes on Pecten maximus on the east cooast of Lundy.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Sabellaria spinulosa tubes on scallop shell.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Close up of head of Sabellaria spinulosa.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Early bottom stage of Sabellaria spinulosa Leuckart.
Copyright: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
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Salmacina dysteri at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Salmacina dysteri at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Salmacina dysteri at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Scalibregma inflatum in a laboratory.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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Specimen of Scoloplos (Scoloplos) armiger.
Copyright: Dr Inken Kruse
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A tube worm Serpula vermicularis.
Copyright: Paul Naylor
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Serpula vermicularis colony at Loch Creran, an SAC on the west coast of Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Serpula vermicularis colony at Loch Creran, an SAC on the west coast of Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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A colony of Serpula vermicularis forming a small reef, Loch Creran, an SAC on the west coast of Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Spiophanes bombyx.
Copyright: Crown copyright
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Calcareous tubes of two keel worms among several barnacles.
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
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Spirobranchus triqueter tubes encrusting a rock and bryozoan.
Copyright: Derek Mayes
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Calcareous tubes of keel worm found near low water mark.
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
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Group of individuals on seaweed.
Copyright: Sue Daly
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Individual removed from soft mud.
Copyright: Dennis R. Seaward
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Individuals removed from soft mud.
Copyright: Dennis R. Seaward
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Gaertner’s spoon worm Thalassema thalassema
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
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Tubifex tubifex.
Copyright: Whirling Disease Foundation
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Electron micrograph of the head of Tubifex tubifex.
Copyright: Whirling Disease Foundation
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Group of Tubifex tubifex worms.
Copyright: Whirling Disease Foundation
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