Pectinaria guildingii, Guilding's Pectinaria Pectinariidae, or the trumpet worms or ice cream cone worms, are a family of marine polychaete worms that build tubes using grains of sand roughly resembling ice cream cones or trumpets. These structures can be up to 5 centimetres (2 in) long. Coloured Plate from ' The Naturalist's repository, or, Monthly miscellany of exotic natural history by Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Volume 4 1826 Consisting of elegantly coloured plates with appropriate scientific and general directions of the most curious, scarce, and beautiful productions of nature that h
Pectinaria guildingii, Guilding's Pectinaria Pectinariidae, or the trumpet worms or ice cream cone worms, are a family of marine polychaete worms that build tubes using grains of sand roughly resembling ice cream cones or trumpets. These structures can be up to 5 centimetres (2 in) long. Coloured Plate from ' The Naturalist's repository, or, Monthly miscellany of exotic natural history by Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Volume 4 1826 Consisting of elegantly coloured plates with appropriate scientific and general directions of the most curious, scarce, and beautiful productions of nature that have been recently discovered in various parts of the world the latest improvements in the various department of science most important discoveries of quadrupeds, birds, fishes,insects, shells, marine productions, and every other interesting object of natural history.
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