Loimia medusa Medusa Worm

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

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AphiaID:: 131499

Scientific:: Loimia medusa
German:: Medusenwurm
English:: Medusa Worm

Category:: Ormer

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, Columbia, Egypt, European Coasts, Gulf of California, Hawaii, Indo Pacific, Japan, Madagascar, Mozambique, North Atlantic Ocean, North-West-Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Panama, Red Sea, South-Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey
Sea depth:: 3 - 40 Meter
Habitats:: Seawater, Sea water, Soft grounds
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
Medusenwurm
Loimia megaoculata
Loimia minuta
Loimia nigrifilis
Loimia ochracea
Loimia pseudotriloba
Loimia salazari
Loimia savignyi
Loimia triloba
Loimia tuberculata
Tuberkel-Spaghettiwurm
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:: 2025-01-15 20:06:17

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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.

Synonymised names
Axionice medusa (Savigny, 1822) · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)
Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Loimia variegata (Grube, 1869) · unaccepted (recombination of subjective synonym)
Terebella medusa Savigny, 1822 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Terebella variegata Grube, 1869 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Direct children (2)
Subspecies Loimia medusa angustescutata Willey, 1905
Subspecies Loimia medusa annulifilis (Grube, 1872) accepted as Loimia annulifilis (Grube, 1872) (rank upgrade to species)

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