Red Blistered Spoon Worm
Ochetostoma erythrogrammon
Spoon worms are belonging to Phylum Echiura. Once treated as a separate phylum,
they are now considered to belong to Annelida. Annelids typically
have their bodies divided into segments, but echiurans have secondarily
lost their segmentation. The majority of echiurans live in burrows in
soft sediment in shallow water, but some live in rock crevices or
under boulders, and there are also deep sea forms. There are only about
150 species of spoon worms, but they can be quite
common in some marine ecosystems. These worms have
been found from here to Singapore.
