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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 ...
Fireworms can wash up on an any ocean shore in the world so long as there is debris for them to cling on. And let’s just say this critter is the opposite of docile, unleashing a neurotoxin from ...
English: Bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata), Garajau Marine Nature Reserve, Madeira, Portugal Español: Gusano de fuego ( Hermodice carunculata ), reserva natural marina de Garajau , Madeira, Portugal
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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.
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.