One of the worms stranger than exists in the nature

One is a nemertino worm whose main characteristic, exactly is that organ that we see leave in the video. Probóscide is called or spun a top evaginable, that the worm keeps within a cavity in the form of tube that is called rincocele. This last one is abre by the side in opposition to the mouth, and generally it has an equal length to the one of the body, or more.

The operation is elaborated, to leave sudden flight it uses the hydrostatic pressure, and to return to its site it is worth of a powerful retractive muscle.

To this they use it tube to hunt to its prey, since the nemertinos are carnivorous. Some coil to their prey with probóscides and others have poison in the end of the same, but in both cases they swallow its complete prey.

There are 900 species of nemertinos, distributed in two classes Anopla and Enopla. Generally they measure less than 20 centimeters in length, but there are species like the Cerebratulus and the worm boot cord (Lineus longissimus), that can measure about 30 cm. Some species are aquatic and other terrestrial ones.

Nemertino worm 1

 

Nemertino worm 2

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