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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals#Class_:_Polychaeta
•  Info Ca. 5 centimetres (2.0 in) small slender peacock worm (Sabella discifera), Cape Palos, Spain. It's not a flower, plant or a coral but a segmented marine polychaete worm of the family Sabellidae that lives in a tube into which it can retract. S. discifera is a filter feeder and extends its radioles to catch phytoplankton and detritus. If you approach to them they retract instantly. The tube where the worm lives is calcareous and is attached to a rock, boulder or other hard surface and has a length of up to 5.2 centimetres (2.0 in). The tube is built by the worm using calcium stored in two white sacs on the ventral side of the second segment, or peristomium. The tube is fabricated by the glandular ventral shields on the other thoracic segments, where calcium is mixed with an organic secretion to make a paste. This is formed into shape by a collar found just behind the first segment, the prostomium. The anterior part of the worm protrudes from the tube and has a plume of about 40 feather-like radioles projecting from the peristomium, which also houses the two eyes and the mouth. A funnel-shaped lid or operculum covers the entrance to the tube when the animal retracts inside. Note: we have no FPs of this species. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 12:38, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 12:38, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support So strange living creatures out there... Yann (talk) 18:29, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Wow, so beautiful. 20 upper 08:16, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Fascinating. BigDom (talk) 09:33, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support per Yann. (But nothing is stranger than human being, as Sophocles already stated – Antigone 332–333 – even without knowing that human beings would be going to destroy the world they are living in. Sorry for the gloss, I could not resist ;–). --Aristeas (talk) 17:57, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support +1 -- Radomianin (talk) 18:02, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:29, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay 💬 17:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 13:44, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 08:55, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:29, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals#Class_:_Polychaeta