Serpula vermicularis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Class
- Polychaeta
- Order
- Sabellida
- Family
- Serpulidae
- Genus
- Serpula
- Species
- Serpula vermicularis
- Scientific Name
- Serpula vermicularis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Serpula vermicularis
Serpula vermicularis, known by common names including the calcareous tubeworm, fan worm, plume worm or red tube worm, is a species of segmented marine polychaete worm in the family Serpulidae. It is the type species of the genus Serpula and was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It lives in a tube into which it can retract.
...Serpula vermicularis in languages:
- Bokmål
- rød kalkrørsmark
- Catalan
- Cuc de closca
- Czech
- rournatec červovitý
- English
- Red Tubeworm
- English
- Operculate Fanworm
- French
- Serpule
- Japanese
- ヒトエカンザシゴカイ
- Portuguese
- Serpula
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