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