Male Clam Worm
by Art MacKay
Title
Male Clam Worm
Artist
Art MacKay
Medium
Digital Art - Digital And More.
Description
From a vintage illustration. Alitta virens (common names include sandworm and king ragworm; older scientific names including Nereis virens are still frequently used) is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud. It is classified as a polychaete.
Sandworms make up a large part of the live sea-bait industry. To fulfill the needs of this industry, some sandworms are commercially grown. "Sandworming", or the harvesting of sandworms from mudflats, employs over 1,000 people in Maine. As of 2006, the population of sandworms had diminished greatly over the preceding few years due in large part to overharvesting before the worms are able to reproduce by spawning.
Sandworms eat seaweed and microorganisms. They have many distinctive traits, including often reaching great length, sometimes exceeding four feet numerous, highly vascularized parapodia along both sides of their bodies blue heads with two large pincer teeth which are capable of biting humans
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March 10th, 2017
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