New Zealand Seashore

DSC_4850 Quill worms (Hyalinoecia artifex) three worms concealed in their protective transparent tubes. 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_4850 Quill worms (Hyalinoecia artifex) three worms concealed in their protective transparent tubes. 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 4850 quill worm Hyalinoecia artifex three worms inside transparent tubes straws chevron pattern valve entrance onuphid polychaete dredged Snares Islands