Polychaete

Hydroides perezi

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A reef worm that builds a hard calcareous tube cemented to dead coral, or hides under boulders and in cracks across the reef platform. It extends a feathery crown to filter the water and snaps it back into the tube at any disturbance.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 209947.