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-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
-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.
www.seawater.no/fauna/annelida/vermicularis.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpula_vermicularis#Description
-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