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Christmas tree worms(Spirobranchus giganteus): Beautiful tube-building polychaete worms
Christmas tree worms(Spirobranchus giganteus): Beautiful tube-building polychaete worms
Spirobranchus giganteus, commonly known as
Christmas tree worms, are tube-building polychaete
worms belonging to the family Serpulidae.
Spirobranchus giganteus is commonly found embedded
in entire heads of massive corals, such as stony corals
like Porites and brain corals.
As sedentary inhabitants of coral reefs,
Christmas tree worms feed primarily by filter feeding.
They use their brightly colored radioles to filter microorganisms
from the water, which are then deposited straight into
the worm's digestive tract.
