Sabellidae

Sabellidae worm
Sabellidae worm, probably Sabellastarte sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Subclass: Palpata
Order: Canalipalpata
Suborder: Sabellida
Family: Sabellidae
Malmgren, 1867
Subfamiliae
  • Fabriciinae
  • Myxicolinae
  • Sabellinae
  • Unassigned

Sabellidae (feather duster worms) are sedentary marine polychaete tube worms where the head is mostly concealed by feathery branchiae. They build tubes out of parchment, sand, and bits of shell. Glomerula secretes a tube of calcium carbonate. They tend to be common in the intertidal zones around the world. Their oldest fossils are known from the Early Jurassic.[1][2]

Characteristics

Feather-duster worms have a crown of feeding appendages or radioles in two fan-shaped clusters projecting from their tubes when under water. Each radiole has paired side branches making a two-edged comb for filter feeding. Most species have a narrow collar below the head. The body segments are smooth and lack parapodia. The usually eight thoracic segments bear capilliaries dorsally and hooked chaetae (bristles) ventrally. The abdominal segments are similar, but with the position of the capilliaries and chaetae reversed. The posterior few abdominal segments may form a spoon-shaped hollow on the ventral side. Size varies between tiny and over 10 cm (2.5 in) long. Some small species can bend over and extend their tentacles to the sea floor to collect detritus.[3]

Genera

Sabellidae with branchiae (feathers) extended

The following genera belong to the family:[4]

  • Amphicorina
  • Amphiglena
  • Anamobaea
  • Aracia
  • Bispira
  • Branchiomma
  • Chone
  • Claviramus
  • Clymeneis
  • Demonax
  • Desdemona
  • Dialychone
  • Euchone
  • Eudistylia
  • Euratella
  • Fabricia
  • Fabriciola
  • Glomerula
  • Haplobranchus
  • Hypsicomus
  • Jasmineira
  • Laonome
  • Manayunkia
  • Megalomma
  • Myxicola
  • Notaulax
  • Novafabricia
  • Oriopsis
  • Panoumethus
  • Panousea
  • Perkinsiana
  • Potamethus
  • Potamilla
  • Pothametus
  • Pseudobranchiomma
  • Pseudofabricia
  • Pseudofabriciola
  • Pseudopotamilla
  • Sabella
  • Sabellastarte
  • Sabellomma
  • Sabellonga
  • Schizobranchia
  • Terebrasabella

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References

  1. ↑ Vinn, O.; Mutvei, H. (2009). "Calcareous tubeworms of the Phanerozoic" (PDF). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 58 (4): 286–296. doi:10.3176/earth.2009.4.07. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  2. ↑ Vinn, O.; ten Hove, H.A.; Mutvei, H. (2008). "On the tube ultrastructure and origin of calcification in sabellids (Annelida, Polychaeta)". Palaeontology 51: 295–301. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00763.x. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  3. ↑ NIWA Guide to Polychaeta
  4. ↑ MarineSpecies.org
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