Christmas Tree Worm Eyes

Googly eyes these technicolor trees aren t plants.

Christmas tree worm eyes. Christmas tree worms have eyes in a really silly place says michael bok. They have been known to occur from the caribbean to the indo pacific. Christmas tree worms are widely distributed throughout the world s tropical oceans.

These animals can be a variety of colors including red orange yellow blue and white. They re the gills of christmas tree worms which hide below in tubes within the coral. They stick up from the top of the worm s buried retreat like the ornamental trees.

A wildly colored pair of tapering feathery spires that protrude from the top of the worm s buried retreat like ornamental trees. Scientists say the marine. Christmas tree worms have eyes in a really silly place says michael bok.

Only the classics for these worms. Christmas tree worms can t run but they can hide the worms actually have fairly complex eyes on their tubes which don t do them much good. But that he adds is just part of their charm.

But their radioles also sport cells that let them distinguish changes in light like the shadow of a predator looking to munch on them. Once settled down a christmas tree worm can live upwards of 30 years. Giganteus is commonly found embedded entirely in heads of massive corals such as stony corals porites and brain corals.

This widespread marine worm spirobranchus giganteus gets its holiday nickname from its gills. Nick hobgood wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0. They are some of the weirdest looking creatures in the ocean but a worm that looks like a multi coloured christmas tree may also have some of the strangest eyes too.