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Australian beach worm

Australonuphis

Visual Appearance
A small but very long thing that looks like something out of Alien
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Order: Eunicida
Family: Onuphidae
Size
Length: 2.5 Meters
Environment
Where Found: Beaches in Australia.
Habitat: sand barely under the tide
Diet: seaweed and animal matter
Factoids
  • They are not dangerous to humans.
  • They have hundreds of body sections.
  • They are very rare and aggressive