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Green and Yellow Worm

01/08/2019

This wonderful bright green and yellow striped marine worm was spotted under a rock in the intertidal zone at Goat Island Marine Reserve.

It is an intertidal bristleworm, Acrocirrus sp. This segmented worm is in the Order Terebellida where the head has numerous feeding tentacles and lacks jaws.

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