Loimia medusa Spagetti Worm, Medusa Worm

Loimia medusais commonly referred to as Spagetti Worm, Medusa Worm. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:: 10195
AphiaID:: 131499

Scientific:: Loimia medusa
German:: Spaghetti Wurm, Medusenwurm
English:: Spagetti Worm, Medusa Worm

Category:: Sea Worms

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellidae (Family) > Loimia (Genus) > medusa (Species)
Initial determination:: (Savigny, ), 1822

Occurrence:: Arabian Sea, Belize, China, Circumtropic, Egypt, European Coasts, Gulf of California, Hawaii, Indo Pacific, Japan, Madagascar, Mozambique, North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Panama, Red Sea, South-Africa, Spain, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, Trinidad and Tobago
Sea depth:: 3 - 40 Meter
Size:: 17.72" - 47.24" (45cm - 120cm)
Temperature:: °F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C)
Food:: Suspension feeder
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Loimia annulifilis
Loimia arborea
Medusenwurm
Loimia armata
Loimia bandera
Loimia batilla
Loimia bermudensis
Loimia brasiliensis
Loimia contorta
Loimia crassifilis
Loimia decora
Loimia grubei
Loimia ingens
Loimia juani
Loimia keablei
Loimia medusa
Spaghetti Wurm, Medusenwurm
Loimia megaoculata
Loimia minuta
Loimia nigrifilis
Loimia ochracea
Loimia pseudotriloba
Loimia salazari
Loimia savignyi
Loimia triloba
Loimia tuberculata
Loimia turgida
Loimia variegata
Loimia verrucosa
Loimia viridis

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-11-23 20:00:46
Last edit:: 2016-11-23 20:33:21

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Loimia medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)

Loimia medusa , commonly known as a Spaghetti Worm, have thin, long white tentacles to 120 cm.Inhabit tidepools, shallow reefs, and rubble.The worm body buried in the substrate.

Synonym:
Terebella medusa

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Sedentaria (Subclass) > Canalipalpata (Infraclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Terebellinae (Subfamily) > Loimia (Genus) > Loimia medusa (Species)

Scientific paper

Population ecology and secondary production of the polychaeteLoimia medusa(Terebellidae), R. D. Seitz; L. C. Schaffner, 1995

External links

MarinelifePhotography Keoki Stender (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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