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boring-worm

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boring-worm

Marine bristle-worm (polychaete) that excavates and inhabits U-shaped tubes in hard materials. Their bodies may often be seen sticking out from the rock cracks and mollusc shells into which they have tunnelled.

Classification

The boring-worm Polydora ciliat is in class Polychaeta in phylum Annelida.


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