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Worm, Cockle Shell

Boccardia sp

Invertebrate

Annelida

Polychaeta

Spionidae

Sandy/Muddy Shore Intertidal
Sandy/Muddy Shore Intertidal

Feeding:
Filter Feeder
Filter Feeder
Distribution:
World Wide
World Wide
Edibility:
Inedible
Inedible
Size:
Microscopic
Microscopic



Small worms which grow/burrow on cockle shells, extend feeding structures out of the burrow.


Mud or sandflats burrowed into cockle (Austrovenus stutchburyi) shells.



Filter feeeder.