Red+Tubeworm

Common Name: Red Tubeworm Phylum : Annelida

Scientific Name :// Serpula vermicularis // Class: **Polychaeta** Location: You will find Red Tubeworms all throughout Alaska to South California.

Size: Length up to 10.2 cm; color is pink, orange or red with white bands; plume has forty pairs of gills; operculum is usually red, two opercula are common; white calcareous tubes are coiled or rambling.

Habitat: Found on floats, pilings, rocks and shells.

Living Requirements: To feed, they wave about their cirri, which are arranged in two spiralling rows, to trap particles of organic matter. The cirri are also used to absorb oxygen.

Life Cycle: Unknown. These worms are hard to study because they are found on the ocean floor.

Male ansd Female Differences: None

Human Impact: The only human impact on the Red Tubeworms is that we are polluting the ocean, but if they are endangered? No.

Facts :)
 * If disturbed, they will withdraw their colourful gills into their tubes.
 * Also called calcareous tube worms, these worms are found intertidally and attached to the bottom of rocks.

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