Species
Eudistylia vancouveri (Northern feather duster worm)
Eudistylia vancouveri. Photo: (c) Ethan Gilmore, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Eudistylia is a genus of marine polychaete worms. The type species is Eudistylia gigantea, now accepted as Eudistylia vancouveri. This worm lives in a parchment-like tube with a single opening from which a crown of tentacles projects when the worm is submerged. It is a sessile filter feeder.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Annelida (Segmented worms)
- Class: Polychaeta (Polychaete worms)
- Subclass: Sedentaria (Sedentary and tube-dwelling bristleworms)
- Infraclass: Canalipalpata
- Order: Sabellida
- Family: Sabellidae (Feather duster worms)
- Subfamily: Sabellinae
- Genus: Eudistylia
- Species: Eudistylia vancouveri (Northern feather duster worm)
- Genus: Eudistylia
- Subfamily: Sabellinae
- Family: Sabellidae (Feather duster worms)
- Order: Sabellida
- Infraclass: Canalipalpata
- Subclass: Sedentaria (Sedentary and tube-dwelling bristleworms)
- Class: Polychaeta (Polychaete worms)
- Phylum: Annelida (Segmented worms)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Sightings
