Feather-duster worm (Bispira sp.), a tube worm with a colourful ’crown’ of ornate feeding and respiratory tentacles. It is a sedentary polychaete safe

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Feather-duster worm (Bispira sp.), a tube worm with a colourful ’crown’ of ornate feeding and respiratory tentacles. It is a sedentary polychaete safely enclosed within its tube that is usually largely embedded in sand at the edge of a shallow patch reef. Anilao, Manila, Philippines

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