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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species in Anemone Coral
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species retracting
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species unretracting
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species unretracting more
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Tubeworm Sabellastarte species with Zoanthids
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Tubeworm species from Koh Phangan
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Tubeworm species from Koh Phangan
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Tubeworm unidentified
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Tubeworm unidentified
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A view of the animal partly retracted into its slime tube
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When removed from the tube, this individual is about 6 cm total length. Note that the animal has immediately begun to produce a new mass of mucus around itself.
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The radioles of this species are united through much of their length into a distinctive funnel.
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The thorax has 8 segments, the first 5 or 6 of which (at least) have long-handled uncini and no pickaxe-shaped setae.
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The abdominal uncini form rows that go nearly all the way around the animal.
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A colony of Myxicola infundibulum on the side of a dock. The colony is about 30 cm across and each funnel-like set of radioles is about 2.5-3 cm across. The entire colony is a ball of mucus that remains when the animals withdraw rapidly into their slime tubes. (Photo by: Dave Cowles, July 2014)
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This view shows the entire animal outside its tube.
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This closeup view of the tube shows how the tip of the tube (to the right) curls over and covers the end when the animal is not sticking out.
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In this view the ocelli (dark spots) can be seen on the radioles. The ocelli can sense light and dark, allowing the animal to pull rapidly inside its tube when a shadow passes over it.
