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Giant Piling Worm

Alitta brandti

Classification

Alitta is a genus of marine annelids in Nereididae family (commonly known as sandworms or ragworms). There are three recognised species within the genus, Alitta grandis (Stimpson, 1853), Alitta succinea (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) and Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 2