Pseudopotamilla occelata  (Polychaete Worm)

Photo of Pseudopotamilla occelata by <a href="http://www.seastarsofthepacificnorthwest.info/">Neil McDaniel</a>

© Neil McDaniel (Photo ID #58560)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location Sechelt Inlet, BC
Photographer Neil McDaniel
Habitat marine, subtidal
Photo Date May 10, 2013
Upload Date January 01, 2014
Elevation (m)
Latitude 49.6038888888889
Longitude -123.787222222222
Photo ID # 58560
Comments Image shows the commensal colonial hydroid Proboscidactyla flavicirrata which grows in a dense cluster around the open end of the tube of this species of sabellid worm. For more info see Strickland 1971, Pacific Science Vol. 25.