Fireworm

Chloeia incerta

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A fireworm of intertidal and subtidal bottoms, it is fringed with bundles of fine white bristles that break off and sting if the animal is handled. Active and predatory, it roams the seabed seizing soft bodied prey with an unarmed throat it can push out.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Annelida › Polychaeta › Amphinomida › Amphinomidae › Chloeia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 336230.