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

Split-crown feather duster
(Anamobaea oerstedi)

Yellow fanworm
(Notaulax occidentalis)

Peacock worm
(Sabella pavonina)

Social feather duster
(Bispira brunnea)

Coral worm
(Filograna implexa)

Christmas tree worm
(Spirobranchus giganteus)

Feather duster worm
(Sabella spallanzanii)

Spaghetti worm
(Eupolymnia crassicornis)

Some flat worms to discover

Leopard flatworm
(Euplanoida pardalis)

Red-rim flatworm
(Pseudobiceros splendidus)

Orange flatworm
(Yungia aurantiaca)

Pink flatworm
(Prostheceraeus roseus)

Persian carpet flatworm
(Pseudobiceros bedfordi)

Some spoon worms to discover

Green spoon worm
(Bonellia viridis)

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