Alexander Semenov, Russland
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That many cold water animals do not have to hide behind their tropical cousins in terms of beauty and colorfulness, Alexander Semerov has already proven to us many times with his photos from the White Sea, so also with the great photos of the feather worm Chone infundibuliformis.
The graceful sea beauty pleases not only us humans by its bright red color, which is not yet so strongly developed with juvenile worms, no, also other sea animals enjoy the feather worm, so for example the flounder (Limanda ferruginea), which likes to eat it.
The colorful worm serves as host to a parasitic cnidarian, Ceratomyxa auerbachi, a member of the infundibuliforme family, which has also been found in the gallbladder of herring (Clupea harengus) from the northern Öresund, Denmark, and from the area around Bergen, western Norway. The herring serve as a fish host for Ceratomyxa auerbachi.
Ceratomyxa auerbachi has also been found in Pacific herrings (Clupea pallasii pallasii) from the Pacific coast of North America and in three bays in central California. They probably enter the fish host through the mouth or gills.
Synonyms:
Chone suspecta Krøyer, 1856
Chone teres Bush, 1905
Tubularia penicillus Fabricius, 1780
The graceful sea beauty pleases not only us humans by its bright red color, which is not yet so strongly developed with juvenile worms, no, also other sea animals enjoy the feather worm, so for example the flounder (Limanda ferruginea), which likes to eat it.
The colorful worm serves as host to a parasitic cnidarian, Ceratomyxa auerbachi, a member of the infundibuliforme family, which has also been found in the gallbladder of herring (Clupea harengus) from the northern Öresund, Denmark, and from the area around Bergen, western Norway. The herring serve as a fish host for Ceratomyxa auerbachi.
Ceratomyxa auerbachi has also been found in Pacific herrings (Clupea pallasii pallasii) from the Pacific coast of North America and in three bays in central California. They probably enter the fish host through the mouth or gills.
Synonyms:
Chone suspecta Krøyer, 1856
Chone teres Bush, 1905
Tubularia penicillus Fabricius, 1780
