Chaetopterus longipes

Chaetopterus longipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Polychaeta
Family:	Chaetopteridae
Genus:	Chaetopterus
Species:	C. longipes
Binomial name
Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, 1904

Chaetopterus longipes is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae. ^{[1] [2]}

Biology and distribution

Chaetopterus longipes is a highly gregarious parchment worm that forms aggregations of hundreds of worms. ^{[3] [4]} It occurs in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. ^[1]

References

1. WoRMS. "Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, 1904". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 8 August 2025.
2. Crossland, Cyril (1904). "The Polychaeta of the Maldive Archipelago from the collections made by J. Stanley Gardiner in 1899. Chaetopteridae and part of the Eunicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 74 (1). London: Academic Press, [etc.]: 270–286, plates XVIII-XIX. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08291.x.
3. Nishi, E. (1996). "Dense aggregation of Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, 1904 (Chaetopteridae, Polychaeta) in coral reefs at Okinawa, Japan". Natural History Research. 4: 41–47. doi:10.13140/2.1.3180.0005.
4. Nishi, E.; Hickman, CP Jr; Bailey-Brock, J. (2009). "Chaetopterus and Mesochaetopterus (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae) from the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of four new species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 158 (1): 239–259. Bibcode:2009PANSP.158..239N. doi:10.1635/053.158.0113.