Neil McDaniel, Kanada
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Parasabella media Bush, 1905
Parasabella media is a large sabellid tubeworm with a variously colored plume. The pinnule tips are glabrous (without pinnules). The tube is parchment-like and large, up to 30 cm long. When the worm retracts into its tube, the tube opening remains round.
This feather-duster worm attaches his egg mass (round donut-shaped gelatinous mass) outside-of-the-tube.
Parasabella media is parasitized by the tiny snail Evalea tenuisculpta.This scab also attacks the red abalone (Haliotis rufescens).
Synonyms:
Demonax medius (Bush, 1905)
Parasabella maculata Bush, 1905
Sabella (Demonax) media (Bush, 1905)
Sabella media (Bush, 1905)
Parasabella media is a large sabellid tubeworm with a variously colored plume. The pinnule tips are glabrous (without pinnules). The tube is parchment-like and large, up to 30 cm long. When the worm retracts into its tube, the tube opening remains round.
This feather-duster worm attaches his egg mass (round donut-shaped gelatinous mass) outside-of-the-tube.
Parasabella media is parasitized by the tiny snail Evalea tenuisculpta.This scab also attacks the red abalone (Haliotis rufescens).
Synonyms:
Demonax medius (Bush, 1905)
Parasabella maculata Bush, 1905
Sabella (Demonax) media (Bush, 1905)
Sabella media (Bush, 1905)
