| Eudistylia | |
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| Eudistylia polymorpha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Clade: | Sedentaria |
| Order: | Sabellida |
| Family: | Sabellidae |
| Subfamily: | Sabellinae |
| Genus: | Eudistylia Bush, 1905 |
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Eudistylia is a genus of marine polychaete worms. The type species is Eudistylia gigantea, now accepted as Eudistylia vancouveri.[1] This worm lives in a parchment-like tube with a single opening from which a crown of tentacles projects when the worm is submerged. It is a sessile filter feeder. the Eudistylia Vancouveri is unique because it has an opiculum which makes it possible to fully retract into the tube when predators are sensed.[2]
- ^ Bush, Katharine J. 1905. Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 12: 169-346.
- ^ Hilber, Walter; Vogel, Karl (1980), "Checklisten", Das neue GmbH-Gesetz, Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag, pp. 382–383, doi:10.1007/978-3-663-13644-6_18, ISBN 978-3-409-96031-1, retrieved 2021-02-08