Tentacular Cirriform Polychaete

Cirriformia tentaculata

• Group: Other

Long orange tentacles fan out across the mud surface while the rest of this worm stays buried below. It mops organic detritus off the sediment one mouthful at a time and tolerates the murky, polluted inshore and estuarine waters that smother less hardy animals.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 129964.