Polychaete

Caulleriella alata

• Group: Other

A small bristle worm of muddy estuary bottoms, this polychaete works through the soft sediment swallowing organic detritus. It belongs to a family of slender thread worms that live head down in burrows with their gills trailing into the water above.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Annelida › Polychaeta › Terebellida › Cirratulidae › Caulleriella

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 129943.