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ice cream cone worm

Pectinaria gouldii

Classification

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Pectinariidae, or the trumpet worms or ice cream cone worms, are a family of marine polychaete worms that build tubes using grains of sand roughly resembling ice cream cones or trumpets. These structures can be up to 5 centimetres (2 in) long. The earliest pectinariid fossils are known either from the Cretaceous or from the Middle Jurassic.

Distribution

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