Annelida Test Flashcards
Pelagic polychaetes are
Free-swimming
Errant polychaetes are not tube-dwelling but are
Similar they crawl about beneath stones, shells, rock, coral, algae, and sessile animals
Gallery dwellers are
Adapted for burrowing in sand or mud
Sedentary burrowers are
Able to construct simple vertical Burris with only one or two opening to the surface
Tube-dwelling polychaetes
Are carnivores and extend from the tube opening to seize small invertebrate prey
Family Nereididae
Feed with a mucus bag
Family Onuphidae
Omnivorous and eat with pharyngeal jaws
Family Amphinomidae
Fire worms
Family Glyceridae
Blood worms
Family polynoidae
Scale worms
Family Aphroditidae
Sea mice
Arenivolidae
Lug worms
Family Terrbellidae
Spaghetti worm
Family Serpulidae
Christmas Tree Worms
Family Siboglinidae
Pickle Worms