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Bearded fireworm Bearded fireworm from the Mediterranean. Bearded fireworms are usually 15 cm (6 inches) in average length, but can reach up to 30 cm (12 inches). [1] [2]At first glance, this fire worm looks like a centipede with its elongated and flattened appearance, multiple segments, white silks, and parapodia and gills located on the side of its body.
Amphinomidae, also known as the fireworms, bristle worms or sea mice, [2] are a family of marine polychaetes, many species of which bear chaetae mineralized with carbonate. [3] The best-known amphinomids are the fireworms, which can cause great pain if their toxin-coated chaetae are touched or trodden on. [ 4 ]
The bearded fireworms washed up on logs covered in barnacles, one of the animals that the otherworldly-looking creatures feed on. While the bearded fireworms may look harmless, people are advised ...
Odontosyllis phosphorea, commonly known as a fireworm, is a polychaete worm that inhabits the Pacific coast of North and Central America. The organism normally lives in a tube on the seabed, but it becomes bioluminescent when it rises to the surface of the sea during breeding season.
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The golden fireworm has an elongated body. Its size varies between 7 and 10 cm (2.8 and 3.9 in) long, and between 1.8 and 2.5 cm (0.7 and 1.0 in) wide, excluding bristles. Its coloration is red-brown to light brown with sometime a light color band in the middle of the body.
Eurythoe complanata, the iridescent fireworm, is a species of polychaetes belonging to the family Amphinomidae. [1] It inhabits coral reefs , such as Heliopora reefs, in the Marshall Islands . It is typically found in shallow, warm tropical waters near rocks and coral .
Taenioides cirratus, known as the bearded worm goby, is a species of worm goby native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean from islands offshore of eastern Africa to New Caledonia and from Japan to Australia.