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Red Tube Worm

(Serpula Vermicularis)

Serpula Vermicularis

interesting facts

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Annelida

Class Polychaeta

Subclass Sedentari

Order Sabellida

Family Serpulidae

description

-Can be red, pink or orange and banded with white

-Can grow up to 7cm in length and 5mm in diameter,

-The body has 200 segements

-5 longitudinal and numerous traverse ridges on the body

-The crown has around 70 tentacles with red or white cross bands

-Tube is often curved

Habitat

-Tube worms do not have a mouth or stomach so they cannot eat instead getting nutrition from filter feeding.

-Norwegian name is rød kalkrørsmark

-Reaches sexual maturity before the age of 2

-Large amounts of hemoglobin give the worm its bright pigment

-found in Pacific, Indian Oceans and the European seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean also along Southern African coast from Olifant's River to Maputo

-intertidal zone at depths down to 100 m (330 ft)

-found on hard substrates, rocks, shells and man made structures

-sometimes live in colonies

- Predators: Deep sea crabs

and shrimp will eat the tube worm’s red plume.

References

www.seawater.no/fauna/annelida/vermicularis.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpula_vermicularis#Description

Life Cycle

-In United Kingdom, spawning happens between June and September

-Larvae form part of the plankton for two months before settling on seabed

-Growth is rapid with tubes extending by 1 cm (0.4 in) in a month

-The worms mature in 10 months and can live for several years.[4

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