🦋 Family

Sabellidae

11 species · Animals

Animalia › Annelida › Polychaeta › Sabellida › Sabellidae

Notaulax occidentalis, the yellow fan worm, is a reef-dwelling sabellid worm that extends a prominent yellow feeding plume.

Myxicola infundibulum is a Sabellidae polychaete worm with a distinct segmented body structure and paired head appendages.

Eudistylia polymorpha is a tube-dwelling feather-duster worm found along the western coast of North America from Alaska to California.

Sabellastarte spectabilis is a large bristle worm native to the Indian Ocean and Red Sea that lives in leathery tubes on reefs and shores.

Sabellastarte magnifica, the magnificent feather duster worm, is a tube-dwelling marine worm with a large, distinctively colored feeding crown.

Bispira brunnea is a Caribbean sabellid worm that lives in cemented tubes, grows in colonies, and filters plankton from water.

Bispira volutacornis is a colonial marine feather worm found in northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean waters.

Sabella spallanzanii, the European fan worm, is a filter-feeding annelid used as a bioindicator and for water pollution remediation.

Sabella pavonina, the peacock worm, is a marine polychaete found in shallow Western European and Mediterranean coastal waters.

Schizobranchia insignis is a unique branched-radiole marine feather duster worm found from Alaska to Central California.

Pseudobranchiomma longa is a feather-duster fanworm found off southern Africa and Madagascar, from intertidal to 200m depth.

Related Families

Serpulidae 15 species Sabellariidae 3 species

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