Polydora (annelid)
| Polydora | |
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| Polydora ciliata (above) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Clade: | Sedentaria |
| Order: | Spionida |
| Family: | Spionidae |
| Subfamily: | Spioninae |
| Genus: | Polydora Bosc d'Antic, 1802 |
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Polydora is a genus of annelid worms. It contains marine polychaete species that live in mud, holes bored in rocks, and holes bored in the shells of shellfish.
Some shell- and rock-boring polydora worms leave a characteristic double hole in the rock and shells in which they burrow.