Elkhorn Slough Spionid

Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata

• Group: Other

A small spionid worm, this species lives in a flimsy tube and feeds with a pair of long grooved palps, either combing the sediment surface or lifting them to strain particles from the water. It is a common coloniser of soft muddy bottoms in shallow bays and estuaries.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Annelida › Polychaeta › Spionida › Spionidae › Pseudopolydora

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 131168.