Lagis koreni (trumpet worm, ice cream cone worm) The trumpet worm inside and outside its tube.
Description Lagis koreni (Malmgren, 1866)
English: The trumpet worm, a tubicolous polychaete from the Oostendebank in the Southern North Sea, Belgium
Total length: ~ 28 mm
Length of the worm: ~ 25 mm
Français : Le vers trompette, un vers polychète tubicole ramassé sur l'Oostendebank dans le sud de la mer du nord, au large de la Belgique. Longueur totale : 28 mm, longueur du vers 25 mm.
Date 13 March 2007
Photographer Hans Hillewaert
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lagis_koreni_(with_and_without_tube).jpg
Lagis koreni, commonly known as the trumpet worm, is a species of marine polychaete worm found in European waters. It lives within a narrow conical tube made of grains of sand and shell fragments. L. koreni is found in the seas bordering northwestern Europe including the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. It is usually found buried in sand or silty sand in the neritic zone. Order: Canalipalpata, Suborder: Terebellida, Family: Pectinariidae, Genus: Lagis, Species: Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866.
Synonyms:
Pectinaria (Lagis) koreni (Malmgren, 1866)
Pectinaria (Lagis) neapolitana (Claparède, 1869)
Pectinaria (Lagis) pseudokoreni Day, 1955
Pectinaria koreni (Malmgren, 1866)
Pectinaria malmgreni Grube, 1870
Pectinaria neapolitana Claparède, 1869
Pectinaria robust Levinsen, 1883
Solen fragilis Klein in McIntosh, 1922
