Suborder

Phyllodociformia

Phyllodoce williamsi. Photo: (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Phyllodocida is an order of polychaete worms in the subclass Aciculata. These worms are mostly marine though some are found in brackish water. Most are active benthic creatures, moving over the surface or burrowing in sediments, or living in cracks and crevices in bedrock. A few construct tubes in which they live and some are pelagic, swimming through the water column. There are estimated to be about 3,500 species in the order.

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Subtaxa

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