Horn-Tusk

Ditrupa arietina

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 0–824 m

The horn tusk worm builds a small, curved calcareous tube, like a miniature tusk, and lives anchored in muddy detritic seabed. It filters food from the water and turns up from the shallows down to more than eight hundred metres.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Annelida › Polychaeta › Sabellida › Serpulidae › Ditrupa

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 130987.