Bristle worm
Amazing fact
The bristle worm Anchinothria cirrobranchiata uses small feet to grasp fallen leaves and carry them to its mouth.
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The bristle worm Anchinothria cirrobranchiata uses small feet to grasp fallen leaves and carry them to its mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bristle worm
- Scientific name
- Anchinothria cirrobranchiata
- Japanese name
- クシエライソメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Polychaeta
- Order
- Eunicida
- Family
- Onuphidae
- Genus
- Anchinothria
It builds a bagworm-like case out of fallen leaves and dead twigs that have sunk to the seafloor.
How the Bristle worm lives
The fallen leaves it uses come from evergreen broadleaf forests along the lower reaches of rivers.
京都大学Basic data
- Range
- Kumano Sea
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- クシエライソメ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — クシエライソメChecked: 2026-11-04
- 京都大学 — 深海で落ち葉を紡ぐイソメの生態を解明―河川流入した照葉樹落葉を巣材と食物に利用―Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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