Classification of Sabellaria
Kingdom :- Animalia (Multicellular eukaryotic organisms)
Phylum :- Annelida (Segmented worms with true coelom and metamerism)
Class :- Polychaeta (Marine bristle worms with parapodia)
Order :- Canalipalpata (Sedentary polychaetes with grooved palps)
Family :- Sabellariidae
Genus :- Sabellaria
Habit and habitat of Sabellaria
It is a marine, sedentary polychaete, more or less Y-shaped. The animals live in simple tubes in sand formed by them.
Distribution
Found in Europe and U.S.A.
Comments on Sabellaria
- Body is elongated, segmented and cylindrical with a broad and bifurcated anterior end.
- The rest of. the body tapers posteriorly.
- Animal projects through the sandy tube.
- Head is constituted by the prostomium and peristomium.
- The prostomium contains a pair of tentacles.
- Peristomium fuses with the palps and becomes comparatively larger and branched.
- Dorsal cirri are modified as gill filaments.
- Each metamere except first and last possesses a pair of appendages or podia.
- Sabellaria often occur in large closely set colonies.
Identification
Since the specimen has bifurcated anterior end and all above characters, hence itis Sabellaria.
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