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Marine Animal Nonfiction Books

Christmas tree worms are very small, they're only 1.5 inches long. They also live in the coral reef, but they live in the coral. They are like tiny Christmas trees with no ornaments.&nbsp;They come in a lot of colours like red, blue, light blue, purple, green, white,yellow, and many other colours. They also have feather-like ends so they can catch their food.

Christmas tree worms never move but they have legs. They use the bristles at the end of them to catch their food that's floating by. These Christmas tree-like crowns are composed of radioles, or hair-like appendages radiating from the worm's central spine. Once a Christmas tree worm finds a place to live it stays there it’s whole life.

Did you know Christmas tree worms have legs but they rarely move? Christmas tree worms live up to 40 years but mostly they live up to 10-20 years.  Christmas tree worms use their bristles to catch their food.

There are 13,000 types of Christmas tree worms. They eat phytoplankton and microscopic plants. They are at the beginning of the food chain.&nbsp;Crab, sea urchins, and shrimps eat Christmas tree worms.

Christmas tree worms live in the coral reef. The zone that they live in is the sunlight zone. Christmas tree worms are producers and consumers.

Radioles---A radiole is a heavily ciliated feather-like tentacle found in highly organized clusters on the crowns of Canalipalpata. Canalipalpata is an order of sessile marine polychaete worms consisting of 31 families. These benthic annelid tube worms employ radioles primarily for alimentation.

Appendage---In invertebrate biology, an appendage is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's body. An appendage is any of the homologous body parts that may extend from a body segment.

Phytoplankton---Phytoplankton are the autotrophic components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.

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