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FIRE WORM
Description
The fireworm is a type of bristleworm. This worm is flat and has groups of white bristles on each side. It is only 35.6 centimeters long. Its weight is unidentified. The bristles on a fireworm are hollow and venom filled. These bristles are very fragile and could be torn if handled. To protect itself, the fireworm will extend its bristles so they are more exposed. Bristleworms are the biggest group of annelids. A majority of the Bristleworms are part of marine life. All the segments of a fireworm are identical apart from the head.
Habitat
The fireworm lives in reefs and rocky or sea grass bottoms. They may also live in muddy areas.
Diet
The fireworm's feeding habits consist of coral, anemone, and small crustaceans. The fireworm usually eats the tissue of cnidarians. It will also eat squid, mussel, clam, and shrimp.
Behavior & Life Span
In being handled the bearded fireworm produces a strong irritation in the area of contact. When it is disturbed the worm shall flare out its bristles as a warning and then attack. Then has been no found information or study of the fireworm's life span.
OTHERS:
They look like a cross between a caterpillar and a tricked out centipede. They crawl about with considerable agility, they are voracious feeders, and they certainly know how to defend themselves. Meet the Bearded Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata), a free-moving marine Polychaete worm.
This species is widely distributed from the Caribbean, throughout the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean (including Florida and the Bahamas), and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. All of the images in this post were captured in the Mediterranean, in the waters around Cyprus and Greece.
Life Cycle
When they surface to mate the females of the species begin to emit a green phosphorescent flow attracting the males of the species who dart towards the females emmitting flashing lights at the same time. As they approach each other the sex cells are shed, combine and create a new generation of these beautiful creatures.
