New Zealand Seashore

DSC_4876 Quill worm (Hyalinoecia artifex) detail of the head of a worm extended beyond its protective transparent tube. The chevron pattern on the tubes is formed by valves just inside the tube entrance. This onuphid polychaete was dredged from deep water off the Snares Islands *

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DSC_4876 Quill worm (Hyalinoecia artifex) detail of the head of a worm extended beyond its protective transparent tube. The chevron pattern on the tubes is formed by valves just inside the tube entrance. This onuphid polychaete was dredged from deep water off the Snares Islands *

DSC 4876 quill worms worm Hyalinoecia artifex detail inside transparent tube straw chevron pattern valve entrance onuphid polychaete dredged Snares Islands