New Zealand Seashore

DSC_4862 Quill worms (Hyalinoecia artifex) detail of three worms inside their transparent tubes. The chevron pattern on the tubes is formed by valves just inside the tube entrance. These onuphid polychaetes were dredged from deep water off the Snares Islands *

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DSC_4862 Quill worms (Hyalinoecia artifex) detail of three worms inside their transparent tubes. The chevron pattern on the tubes is formed by valves just inside the tube entrance. These onuphid polychaetes were dredged from deep water off the Snares Islands *

DSC 4862 Quill worms worm Hyalinoecia artifex detail three inside transparent tubes tube straw straws quills chevron pattern valve valves entrance onuphid polychaete dredged Snares Islands