Pulau Semakau checklist - worms and others

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Pulau Semakau checklist
updated Nov 09

Intertidal flora and fauna

Phylum Platyhelmintes
Class Turbellaria

Beige flatworm awaiting identification	Blue-lined flatworm awaiting identification	Red-tipped flatworm Pseudoceros bifurcus	Purple-spotted yellow flatworm Pseudoceros laingensis	Acoel flatworms
Orange-edged black flatworm Pseudobiceros uniarborensis	Spotted black flatworm Acanthozoon sp.	Persian carpet flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi	Starry flatworm Pseudobiceros stellae	Fine lined flatworm awaiting identification
Red-lined flatworm Maritigrella virgulata	Brown striped flatworm Pseudobiceros gratus

Phylum Annelida

Class Polychaeta

Solitary tubeworm
Diopatra sp

Keelworms
Family Serpulidae

Banded fanworm
Family Sabellidae

Orange fanworm
Family Sabellidae

Reef bristleworm
Eurythoe complanata

Phylum Hemichordata

Class Enteropneusta

Phylum Nemertea

Phylum Nemertea ribbon worms

Very long ribbon worm
Baseodiscus delineatus

Phylum Porifera

Blue jorunna sponge Neopetrosia sp.	Orange sprawling sponge Clathria reinwardti	Yellow prickly branching sponge Pseudoceratina purpurea	Brown prickly branching sponge Iricinia sp.	Chocolate sponge Spheciospongia cf. vagabunda
Blue spatula sponge Lamellodysidea herbacea	Daisy sponge Coelocarteria singaporense	Thick pink sponge Callyspongia diffusa	Lumpy pink sponge Haliclona cf baeri	Orange blob sponge Mycale sp.
Melted chocolate sponge Chondrilla australiensis	Yellow many-coned sponge Spheciospongia sp	Barrel sponge Xetospongia testudinaria	Golf ball sponge Cinachyrella australiensis	Prickly ball sponge Tethya robusta
Tangled sponge awaiting identification	Straw sponge awaiting identification	Pink puff ball sponge Oceanapia sagittaria

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