Trophic Strategy
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Diopatra cuprea are active predators, which is unusual among the polychaete worms of their class. They have to be handled carefully because they can bite. They use their tentacles and cirri to find their food. They eat small creatures such as larval fishes and other tiny beings. They lie at the entrance of their tunnels devouring any tidbit that comes in reach. They only have to reach out and get it. (Malcom 1999; Knopf 1981)
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Distribution
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Diopatra cuprea is found in coastal areas from Massachusetts to Florida and Louisiana as well as in the Gulf of Mexico.(Malcom 1999;Knopf 1981)
Biogeographic Regions: nearctic (Native ); atlantic ocean (Native )
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Habitat
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Diopatra cuprea live on protected mud and sand flats mixed with shell debris and gravel from the low-tide line to water up to 270 feet deep. They live in their tubes, which they create from particles of shells and other matter in their environment. (Holzapfel 1998; Knopf 1981)
Aquatic Biomes: coastal
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Morphology
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Diopatra cuprea are on average 12 inches long and 3/8 of an inch wide. They live in a leathery tube, which they make out of mucus, bits of shells and rocks. When they come out of their shells they look similar to Christmas trees; however they are not often seen. Their shells are spirals that are cylindrical at the front and flat and tapered at the end. The color of their tube is reddish to brown and speckled with gray. They have many appendages. The lobe above their mouth is oval and short with one pair of short conical antennae. They also have five long antennae with ringed bases on the top. They have large jaws and the segments between 4 or 5 and 35 have bushy gills on their upper surfaces. These bushy gills are the "plumes" that give the plumed worm its more common name. (Carson 1955; Klingel 1951; Knopf 1981)
Other Physical Features: ectothermic ; bilateral symmetry
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Diopatra cuprea are relatively common. With increases in erosion and coastal sediment transportation very important coastal habitats have been destroyed. This can be attributed to the increased use of beaches and the mining of sand. As these activities continue to increase so does the risk to the Diopatra cuprea. (Cutter 1998)
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Breeding Season
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- Costello, D.P. and C. Henley (1971). Methods for obtaining and handling marine eggs and embryos. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (Second Edition)
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Care of Adults
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Fertilization and Cleavage
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Later Stages of Development
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Living Material
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- Allen, M. J., 1951. Observations on living developmental stages of the polychaete, Diopatra cuprea (Bosc). Anat. Rec., 111: 134.
- Allen, M. J., 1953. Development of the polychaete, Diopatra cuprea (Bosc). Anat. Rec., 117: 572-573.
- Andrews, E. A., 1891a. Report upon the Annelida Polychaeta of Beaufort, North Carolina. Proc. U. 5. Nat. Mus., 14: 277-302.
- Andrews, E. A., 1891b. Reproductive organs of Diopatra. J. Morph., 5: 113-124.
- Hartman, O., 1945. The marine annelids of North Carolina. Duke Univ. Mar. Station, Bull. no. 2.
- Hartman, O., 1951. The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. Publ. Inst. Mar. Sci., Univ. of Texas 2: 1-124.
- Just, E. E., 1922. On rearing sexually mature Platynereis megalops from eggs. Amer. Nat., 56: 471-478.
- Monro, C. C. A., 1924. On the post-larval stage in Diopatra cuprea, Bosc, a Polychaetous Annelid of the family Eunicidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9, 14: 193-199.
- Renaud, J. c., 1956. A report on some polychaetous annelids from the Miami-Bimini area. Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 1812.
- Sumner, F. B., R. C. Osburn and L. J. Cole, 1911. A biological survey of the waters of Woods Hole and vicinity. Part 1. Bull. U. S. Burl Fisheries, 31. 1-544.
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Preparation of Cultures
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Procuring Embryos and Gametes
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Special comments
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The Unfertilized Ovum
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Time Table of Development
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Diopatra cuprea
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Diopatra cuprea, commonly known as the plumed worm, decorator worm or sometimes ornate worm, is a species of polychaete worm in the family Onuphidae, first described by the French entomologist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1802. It is native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.[2]
Description
D. cuprea inhabits a parchment-like tube made of a mucous polysaccharide material, the tip of which projects from the sediment in which the rest of the tube is buried. The tube acts as a chimney; the lower part may be a metre long and is smooth with grains of sediment adhering to it. The upper part resembles an inverted "J", with the outer surface being reinforced with shell fragments and tiny pebbles which are cemented in the style of an overlapping mosaic.[3] This part is extended by the worm if siltation threatens to bury it, and the tube occasionally has two entrances.[4]
When these tubes are no longer occupied, they get washed out of the seabed and sometimes get deposited on the strand-line. The living worm is very colourful; its reddish-brown segmented body is iridescent, and often dotted with grey. Each segment bears a pair of yellowish-brown, oar-like parapodia with green speckles, which contrast with the bright red gills[5] or "plumes" which endow the worm with its more common name, resembling a Christmas tree in rare cases. The occipital tentacles are covered with neat longitudinal rows of papillae of different sizes.[6]
Distribution
D. cuprea occurs in the warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. Its range extends from Cape Cod southwards to the West Indies, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and Brazil.[2]
Ecology
D. cuprea is an omnivore and scavenger; it feeds on algae as well as on small invertebrates such as copepods, gastropod molluscs, barnacle larvae and hooded shrimps, some of which tend to grow on the exterior of the tube. The worm can turn round inside the tube, and this seems to serve as a food-gathering device as well as a home.[5] The worm actively creates a flow of water through the tube to increase oxygenation, and haemoglobins in the interstitial fluid are used as respiratory pigments.[7]
It can often be found in sea grass meadows of turtlegrass Thalassia testudinum and shoalweed Halodule wrightii, along with the polychaete worms Owenia fusiformis and Polydora ligni, and the phoronid worm Phoronis psammophila. Other animals living in this habitat include the brittle stars Ophiothrix angulata and Ophiactis savignyi, the dove snail Costoanachis semiplicata, the bivalves Phacoides pectinatus and Chione cancellata, the bay scallop Argopecten irradians and the predatory snail Neverita duplicata.[5]
References
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^ Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire naturelle des vers contenant leur description et leurs moeurs. Vol. 1. Paris: Deterville. pp. 142–143.
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^ a b c Fauchald, Kristian (2017). Read G, Fauchald K (eds.). "Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802)". World Polychaeta database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
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^ Bromley, Richard G. (2012). Trace Fossils: Biology, Taxonomy and Applications. Routledge. pp. 62–63. ISBN 978-1-135-07607-8.
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^ Phillips, Tina M.; Lovell, Charles R. (1999). "Distributions of total and active bacteria in biofilms lining tubes of the onuphid polychaete Diopatra cuprea". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 183: 169–178. Bibcode:1999MEPS..183..169P. doi:10.3354/meps183169.
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^ a b c Rothschild, Susan B. (2004). Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Taylor Trade Publications. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-58979-061-2.
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^ The Royal Society of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. The Royal Society of New Zealand. p. 283.
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^ Australian Biological Resources Study (2000). Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis. Csiro Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-643-06571-0.
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Diopatra cuprea: Brief Summary
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Diopatra cuprea, commonly known as the plumed worm, decorator worm or sometimes ornate worm, is a species of polychaete worm in the family Onuphidae, first described by the French entomologist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1802. It is native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras
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