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Appearing in early spring, its distinctive goblet-shaped and dark-colored fruit bodies have earned it the common names crater cup, devil's urn and the gray urn. The asexual ( imperfect ), or conidial stage of U. craterium is a plant pathogen known as Conoplea globosa , which causes a canker disease of oak and several other hardwood tree species.
Urechis caupo is a plump, unsegmented, cylindrical pink worm growing to a length of up to 7 inches, with 5.5 inches being a more typical length. There are a pair of setae (bristles) on the ventral surface at the anterior end, and a distinctive ring of about ten setae around the anus at the posterior end.
Paralvinella sulfincola, also known as the Sulfide worm, is a species of polychaete worm of the Alvinellidae family that thrives on undersea hot-water vents.It dwells within tubes in waters surrounding hydrothermal vents, in close proximity to super-heated fluids reaching over 300 °C (572 °F).
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, commonly known as the pigbutt worm or flying buttocks, is a species of worm first described by scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in 2007. [1] The worm is round in shape, approximately 10 to 20 millimeters in length (roughly the size of a hazelnut ), and bears a strong resemblance to a ...
Alvinella pompejana, the Pompeii worm, is a species of deep-sea polychaete worm (commonly referred to as "bristle worms"). It is an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean , discovered in the early 1980s off the Galápagos Islands by French marine biologists .
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have made major headway in understanding a strange and elusive species of snake-like worm. These 'Dune'-like worms are tiny but act more like ...
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The Sipuncula or Sipunculida (common names sipunculid worms or peanut worms) is a class containing about 162 species of unsegmented marine annelid worms. Sipuncula was once considered a phylum, but was demoted to a class of Annelida, based on recent molecular work. [1] Sipunculans vary in size but most species are under 10 cm (4 in) in length.