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All Bristle Worms (Polychaeta)

Bristle Worms (Polychaeta) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the marine bristle worms or polychaetes, including tube worms, fan worms and lugworms. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a bristle worm or polychaete. It excludes earthworms and leeches. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.

All Bristle Worms (Polychaeta)
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Spirobranchus giganteus, Wikipedia
Has Member: Christmas Tree Worm, Lead
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Spirobranchus giganteus, commonly known as the Christmas tree worm, is a polychaete worm belonging to the family Serpulidae building calcareous tubes.
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Palola viridis (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Palolo Worm (Palola viridis), Lead
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Palola viridis (or Eunice viridis), commonly known as the palolo worm, Samoan palolo worm, balolo, wawo, or nyale, is a Polychaeta species from the waters of some of the Pacific islands, including Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and the islands of the maritime Southeast Asia (which
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Riftia (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Giant Tube Worm, Lead
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Riftia is a monotypic genus of polychaete annelid worms in the Siboglinidae family, which contains the sole species Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tubeworm or giant beardworm.
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Wikipedia: Sabellidae
WikipediaHas Member: Feather Duster Worm, Lead
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Sabellidae, or feather duster worms, are a family of marine polychaete tube worms characterized by protruding feathery branchiae.
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Wikipedia: Polychaete
WikipediaHas Member: Bristle Worm, Lead
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Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes ().
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Blow lugworm (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Blow lugworm, Lead
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The blow lugworm (Arenicola marina), also known as sandworm, is a large species of marine worm.
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Wikipedia: Sabellida
WikipediaHas Member: Fan Worm, Lead
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Sabellida is an order of annelid worms formerly in the class Polychaeta.
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Wikipedia: Alitta virens
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Alitta virens (common names include sandworm, sea worm, and king ragworm; older scientific names, including Nereis virens, are still frequently used) is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud.
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