Chaetopteridae
id:
chaetopteridae-227-4039331
title:
Chaetopteridae
text:
The Chaetopteridae are a family of marine filter-feeding polychaete worms that live in vertical or U-shaped tubes in tunnels buried in the sedimentary or hard substrate of marine environments. The worms are highly adapted to the hard tube they secrete. Inside the tube the animal is segmented and regionally specialized, with highly modified appendages on different segments for cutting the tunnel, feeding, or creating suction for the flow of water through the tube home. The modified segments for f
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Family of annelid worms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetopteridae
date created:
2007-11-05T02:25:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T04:02:05Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16