Urechis caupo

"Innkeeper worm" redirects here. Not to be confused with Urechis unicinctus.

Urechis caupo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Clade: Sedentaria
Subclass: Echiura
Order: Echiuroidea
Family: Urechidae
Genus: Urechis
Species:
U. caupo
Binomial name
Urechis caupo

Urechis caupo is a species of spoon worm in the family Urechidae, commonly known as the innkeeper echiuran,[2] the fat innkeeper worm (because their tunnels often contain other animals),[3] the innkeeper worm,[4] or the penis fish.[5] It is found in shallow water on the west coast of North America, between southern Oregon and Baja California,[6] where it forms a U-shaped burrow in the sediment and feeds on plankton using a mucus net.[7]

  1. ^ van der Land, Jacob; Murina, Galina Vansetti (2008). "Urechis caupo Fisher & MacGinitie, 1928". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. ^ Light, Sol Felty (2007). The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon. University of California Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
  3. ^ "Fat innkeeper worm". Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  4. ^ Cowles, Dave (2010). "Urechis caupo Fisher and MacGinitie, 1928". Invertebrates of the Salish Sea. Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory (a campus of Walla Walla University, Washington). Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Parr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Dunham, Jackie (2019-12-13). "Thousands of 'penis fish' litter California beach". CTVNews. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  7. ^ Boore, JL (15 September 2004). "Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Urechis caupo, a representative of the phylum Echiura". BMC Genomics. 5: 67. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-5-67. PMC 521484. PMID 15369601.