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Updated 12/5/2012

Family Terebellidae

NORTHEAST PACIFIC

Thelepus crispus

Rainbow Harbor, Long Beach, California, 5 feet

Pelican Reserve, Anacapa, CA, 25 feet

TUBE WORM

Common in sand among rock & rubble.  Tube formed with mucus and coarse particles.  Reddish-brown tentacles cannot be fully retracted.  Alaska to Southern California.