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Phoronis vancouverensis
Phoronid Worm

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0505 0072 (2005-05-02)

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date of photo between 1980 and 1986

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

habitat Subtidal

notes These tiny worms are suspension feeders utilizing a crown of ciliated tentacles only about 3 mm across, the lophophore, as seen here. These were found on a piling beneath the municipal wharf, the only place we have seen them.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Phoronid Worm (photographer)

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