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Golfingia vulgaris Peanut worm

Golfingia vulgarisis commonly referred to as Peanut worm. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully.

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lexID:
7002 
AphiaID:
424332 
Scientific:
Golfingia vulgaris 
German:
Spritzwurm 
English:
Peanut Worm 
Category:
Sea Worms 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Sipuncula (Phylum) > Sipunculidea (Class) > Golfingiida (Order) > Golfingiidae (Family) > Golfingia (Genus) > vulgaris (Species) 
Initial determination:
(de Blainville, ), 1827 
Occurrence:
the North Sea, Australia, European Coasts, North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Red Sea, the British Isles, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa 
Temperature:
41 °F - 80.6 °F (5°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Detritus, Plankton, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Golfingia anderssoni
  • Golfingia anguinea
  • Golfingia approximata
  • Golfingia birsteini
  • Golfingia capensis
  • Golfingia elongata
  • Golfingia iniqua
  • Golfingia innoxia
  • Golfingia lagensis
  • Golfingia margaritacea
 
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Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2014-04-13 13:19:59 

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Golfingia vulgaris (de Blainville, 1827)

Golfingia vulgaris has an unsegmented body (like all sipunculid worms) and grows up to 20 cm in length.The colour is very variable .It can be grey, whitish or yellowish brown.This Peanut Worm lives in muddy sand or gravel from shallow water to depths of several hundred metres.With tentacles around the mouth the Peanut Worm catch Dedritus and small planctonic animals.

Golfingia vulgaris has a widespread distribution around the world.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Sipuncula (Phylum) > Sipunculidea (Class) > Golfingiida (Order) > Golfingiidae (Family) > Golfingia (Genus) > Golfingia (Golfingia) (Subgenus)

Scientific paper

  1. Ultrastructure of the Cuticle of the Sipunculans Golfingia vulgaris and Sipunculus nudus, G. Goffinet, M. -F. Voss-Foucart and S. Barzin, 1978

External links

  1. MarLIN – The Marine Life Information Network (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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