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Spirobranchus giganteus
Spirobranchus giganteus
Description Depth: 4m
Country: Indonesia - Komodo Island
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  Author Ketabi, Ramin; Jamili, Shahla ·  JPG file - 303.29 kB - 1 152 x 648 pixelsmore
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Original Width: 4608 pixels
Original Height: 2592 pixels
Orientation: 1: Horizontal (normal)
 added on 2018-09-04740 viewsPolychaeta taxaDigital photo, part of species Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
Comment Comment (1)
added on 2018-09-07 22:26:25 by  
this cannot be Sp. giganteus, restricted to the Caribbean. It most probably belongs to Sp. corniculatus, one of the Indo-Pacific Christmas tree worms, but without a good view of the operculum one cannot be certain
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