dcsimg
Ocean University of China. College of Marine Life Science. Year: 2012.   cc-by-nc-sa-3.0

Paraprionospio pinnata is a species of segmented worms in the family spionids. They are upward conveyors. They are facultatively mobile swimmers.

  • URI: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/terms/RW_UC
  • Definition: Upward conveyors are vertically oriented species that typically feed head-down at depth in the sediment. Vertically oriented head-down feeders actively select and ingest particles at the deeper sediments and egest these non-locally as faeces in the sediment surface
show all records
show all records
  • URI: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/terms/MOB_SWIM
  • Definition: An organism that moves through the water column via movements of its fins, legs or appendages, via undulatory movements of the body or via jet propulsion; includes pelagic phases during reproduction (swarming at the surface)
show all records

EOL has data for 24 attributes, including:

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Paraprionospio pinnata (Ehlers 1901) from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility   GBIF provides free and open access to biodiversity data. View this species on GBIF