Arenicola

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Annelida

Class: Polychaeta



Popularly called as the ‘Lug worm’ or ‘Lobe Worm’.

Lives in burrow of muddy sand.

Lives in ‘U’ shaped tube (Body shape).

It is a mud eating polychaete.

Head consist of prostomium and peristomium.

Appendages are absent in head.

Body is divisible into – Head, Pre- branchial region, Branchial region and Post – branchial region.

Possess an eversible proboscis.

Parapodia are absent.