Spirorbis spirorbis: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Order
Sabellida
Family
Serpulidae
Genus
Spirorbis
Species
Spirorbis spirorbis
Scientific Name
Spirorbis spirorbis

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Spirorbis spirorbis

Spirorbis spirorbis or Spirorbis borealis is a small (3–4 mm) coiled sedentary marine polychaete worm in the Serpulidae family that lives attached to seaweeds and eel grass in shallow saltwater. It is commonly called the sinistral spiral tubeworm and is the type species of the genus Spirorbis.

S. spirorbis is a cross-fertilising hermaphrodite that broods its young in a tube attached to the worm inside the shell. The larvae are released at an advanced stage of development and spend just a few hours as free-living organisms before attaching themselves to the nearest suitable surface, often the same seaweed as the parent.

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Spirorbis spirorbis in languages:

Bokmål
posthornmark
Danish
Almindelig posthornsorm
English
Coil Worm
English
Sinistral Spiral Tubeworm
French
Spirorbe
German
Posthörnchenwurm
Swedish
Spiralrörsmask

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