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Cheilonereis cyclurus (Cheilonereis cyclurus)
Scientific name: Cheilonereis cyclurus

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Annelida → Class Polychaeta → Subclass Errantia → Order Phyllodocida → Suborder Nereidiformia → Family Nereididae → Subfamily Nereidinae → Genus Cheilonereis

Common name: Cheilonereis cyclurus
Locations: Eastern Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesWorms

Lives inside big hermit crab shells and feeds on the scraps when the hermit crab eats.

ID by Leslie Harris, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

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