Sealife guideThe marine worms

Earthworms, in the broad sense of the term, are made up of 3 main phyla as far as we are concerned meaning the marine worms.

We will successively focus on the segmented worms then on the flat worms and finally on the spoon worms, one representative of which is the green spoon worm.

Marine worms total around 25,000 different species.

The spirograph is a segmented worm (Mediterranean sea, October 2005)

The green spoon worm (Bonellia viridis) belongs to the echiurans (Mediterranean sea, October 2005)

Some segmented worms to discover

Bearded fireworm
(Hermodice carunculata)

Bobbitt worm
(Eunice aphroditois)

Christmas tree worm
(Spirobranchus giganteus)

Coral worm
(Filograna implexa)

Feather duster worm
(Sabella spallanzanii)

Social feather duster
(Bispira brunnea)

Spaghetti worm
(Eupolymnia crassicornis)

Split-crown feather duster
(Anamobaea oerstedi)

Some flat worms to discover

Leopard flatworm
(Euplanoida pardalis)

Orange flatworm
(Yungia aurantiaca)

Persian carpet flatworm
(Pseudobiceros bedfordi)

Pink flatworm
(Prostheceraeus roseus)

Red-rim flatworm
(Pseudobiceros splendidus)

Some spoon worms to discover

Green spoon worm
(Bonellia viridis)

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