Neither the basket cockles or the littlenecks have a long siphon so they are always near the surface.īend-nose clam in burrow (left). Like all clams basket cockles are filter feeders.Ĭommon littleneck clams, Protothaca staminea, are also found at shallow depths in the mud. (GA images)īasket cockles, Clinocardium nuttallii, are found at shallow depths in the mud of a few inches. When the tide is in they project their green ciliated tentacles (the lophophore) out the tube, into the water, to filter feed.īasket cockle top view (left) and side view (right). Stick worms, Phoronopsis viridis, are lophophorate worms which bury in the mud but leave a tube extending above the surface. Stickworm lophophores in the water feeding (right). It may have a commensal pea crab that is compressed from front to back as an adaptation to the thin burrow of Axiothella.Ĭommensal pea crab, Pinnixa longipes, compressed from front to back so that it fits into a long thin burrow, such as that created by Axiothella. Red mud worms are deposit feeders.Ī segmented worm, Axiothella rubrocincta, lives under the mud and creates a distinctive surface swirl of mud. It is very thin (like a hair) and breaks apart easily. Red mud worm, Notomastus tenuis, is a segmented worm found in almost every shovel-full of mud.
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