Order

Common name: Feather Duster Worms

Scientific name: Sabellida

Sabellida is an order of marine polychaete worms known for their ornate, feathery tentacles which they use for filter feeding. Members of this order, such as the popular Feather Duster Worms, are often kept in reef aquariums for their beauty and utility in water filtration. They are generally peaceful and can coexist with a wide variety of tank mates. These worms build protective tubes out of sediment, which they can retract into when threatened. Hobbyists should ensure their aquarium provides a substrate suitable for tube construction and a steady flow of nutrient-rich water for feeding.

  1. social feather duster, Bispira brunnea
    Common name: Social feather duster
    Scientific name: Bispira brunnea
  2. Closup on twin fan worm or spiral fan worm Bispira volutacornis
    Common name: Banded Fanworm
    Scientific name: Bispira melanostigma
  3. Violet Caribbean Sea Social Feather Duster Colony
    Common name: Social Feather Duster
    Scientific name: Bispira tricyclia
  4. funny animal feather duster worm, popular and demanding pet move tentacles in circular current and hunt for food, healthy and active bristleworm in nano reef marine aquarium
    Common name: Feather Duster Worm
    Scientific name: Bispira viola
  5. Twin fan worm (Bispira volutacornis) in Mediterranean Sea
    Common name: Twin fan worm
    Scientific name: Bispira volutacornis
  6. Common name: St. Joseph's Cardinalfish
    Scientific name: Eurato sanctijosephi
  7. Fauna of ocean surrounding Gran Canaria - tangled tubes of marine Tube worms, rounded into a pebble
    Common name: Tangled Tubeworm
    Scientific name: Filograna implexa
  8. Common name: Filogranella elatensis
    Scientific name: Filogranella elatensis
  9. Slime tube worm (Myxicola infundibulum) sea bottom
    Common name: Red Feather Duster
    Scientific name: Myxicola infundibulum
  10. tubeworm (protula bispiralis)
    Common name: hard tube coco worm
    Scientific name: Protula bispiralis
  11. Marine polychaete Mediterranean fanworm or feather duster worm, European fan worm (Sabella spallanzanii) undersea, Aegean Sea, Greece, Halkidiki
    Common name: Mediterranean Fanworm
    Scientific name: Sabella fallax
  12. Magnificent Feather Duster worm underwater in the Caribbean, Sabellastarte magnifica
    Common name: feather duster
    Scientific name: Sabellastarte magnifica
  13. Feather duster worm (Sabellastarte spectabilis) on the reef off the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten
    Common name: Indian feather duster worm
    Scientific name: Sabellastarte spectabilis
  14. Colorful Christmas tree worms with coral reef and coral
    Common name: Coral worm
    Scientific name: Salmacina dysteri
  15. Calcareous tubeworm or fan worm, plume worm or red tube worm (Serpula vermicularis) close-up undersea, Aegean Sea, Greece, Halkidiki
    Common name: tubeworm
    Scientific name: Serpula vermicularis
  16. Christmas Tree Worm, Spirobranchus corniculatus
    Common name: Christmas Tree Worm
    Scientific name: Spirobranchus corniculatus
  17. 海の中のイバラカンザシ
    Common name: Christmas Tree Worm
    Scientific name: Spirobranchus giganteus