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Marine Species: Arenicola cristata
(Stimpson, 1856)
Taxonomy Structure
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Polychaeta |
| Order: | Capitellida |
| Family: | Arenicolidae |
| Genus: | Arenicola |
| Species: | Arenicola cristata |
Species Data:
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| Common Name: | Southern Lugworm |
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| Description: | It seems a hill in volcanic cone form in the sand. The worms, which are never found above the surface live in burrows with a U form burried in the sand. They live solitary but in close areas, can sometimes be spotted from hundreds of cone-shaped hills, which are formed to excrete the sand that already ingested and removed from organic debris. |
| Habitat: | It lives on sandy bottoms at depths between 1 and 20m. |
| Color: | Green and brown with red-brown and white filaments. |
| Dimensions: | Long, It has between 10 to 15cm. |
| Geographical Distribution: | Caribbean Sea Western Central Atlantic |
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