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.
Some segmented worms to discover

Bobbitt wormEunice aphroditois

Christmas tree wormSpirobranchus giganteus

Giant tube wormRiftia pachyptila

Magnificent feather dusterSabellastarte magnifica

Peacock wormSabella pavonina

Social feather dusterBispira brunnea

Spaghetti wormEupolymnia crassicornis

Yellow fanwormNotaulax occidentalis
Some flat worms to discover

Leopard flatwormEuplanoida pardalis

Orange flatwormYungia aurantiaca

Persian carpet flatwormPseudobiceros bedfordi

Pink flatwormProstheceraeus roseus

Red-rim flatwormPseudobiceros splendidus
Some spoon worms to discover
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