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  3. Ringed Worms
  4. Polychaetes

class

Polychaetes

Polychaeta

Includes
186 native 7 introduced 22 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sedentary and Tube-dwelling Bristleworms 92 native
  • Active Free-living Bristleworms 90 native
  • Spoon Worms 4 native
  • Nerillidae
  • Oweniidae
  • Polygordiidae
  • Protodrilidae
  • Magelonidae
  • Dinophilidae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native polychaetes All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Blow Lugworm Arenicola marina 2,579 observations
  • Eighteen-scaled Worm Halosydna brevisetosa 938 observations
  • Fringed Filament Worm Dodecaceria pacifica 853 observations
  • Platynereis bicanaliculata 535 observations
  • American Lugworm Arenicola cristata 216 observations
  • Fat Innkeeper Worm Urechis caupo 191 observations
  • Candy-striped Polychaete Dorvillea moniloceras 172 observations
  • Pareurythoe californica 161 observations
  • Polyophthalmus pictus 98 observations
  • Hemipodia simplex 57 observations
  • Comb-toothed Nereid Platynereis dumerilii 52 observations
  • Naineris dendritica 13 observations
  • Aphrodita hastata 10 observations

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