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Pectinariidae
Sign in to savePectinariidae, or the trumpet worms or ice cream cone worms, are a family of marine polychaete worms that build tubes using grains of sand roughly resembling ice cream cones or trumpets. These structures can be up to long. The earliest pectinariid fossils are known from the Cretaceous.
Species
comb worms
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassPolychaeta
- OrderTerebellida
- FamilyPectinariidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 616
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Pectinariidae
- Collections
- CINVESTAV-IPN, CAS, YPM, SIO
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Canada
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- Parent taxon
- Terebellida
- Image
- Lagis koreni (with and without tube).jpg
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Pectinariidae, or the trumpet worms or ice cream cone worms, are a family of marine polychaete worms that build tubes using grains of sand roughly resembling ice cream cones or trumpets. These structures can be up to long. The earliest pectinariid fossils are known from the Cretaceous.
==Ecology== Pectinariids are sessile burrowing tube dwellers, which can be found in fine-grained sediment. They position the wider end of their tube downwards, and use their stout golden setae for digging while they use tentacles for sorting the particles which they ingest. Half of the particles which the worm digs through are excreted as pseudofaeces.
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