Chaetopterus longipes
| Chaetopterus longipes | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Family: | Chaetopteridae |
| Genus: | Chaetopterus |
| Species: | C. longipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, 1904 | |
Chaetopterus longipes is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae.[1][2]
Biology and distribution
[edit]Chaetopterus longipes is a highly gregarious parchment worm that forms aggregations of hundreds of worms.[3][4] It occurs in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 WoRMS. "Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, 1904". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ↑ Crossland, Cyril (1904). "The Polychaeta of the Maldive Archipelago from the collections made by J. Stanley Gardiner in 1899. Chaetopteridae and part of the Eunicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 74 (1). London: Academic Press, [etc.]: 270–286, plates XVIII-XIX. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08291.x.
- ↑ Nishi, E. (1996). "Dense aggregation of Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, 1904 (Chaetopteridae, Polychaeta) in coral reefs at Okinawa, Japan". Natural History Research. 4: 41–47. doi:10.13140/2.1.3180.0005.
- ↑ Nishi, E.; Hickman, CP Jr; Bailey-Brock, J. (2009). "Chaetopterus and Mesochaetopterus (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae) from the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of four new species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 158 (1): 239–259. Bibcode:2009PANSP.158..239N. doi:10.1635/053.158.0113.
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