Lugworm  (Arenicola marina)

Range

Common around all coasts of Britain and Ireland. Elsewhere it is known from western Europe, Norway, Iceland, Siberia, Greenland and on the coasts of the western Atlantic (3).

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Habitat

Found on the middle and lower shore, in sand and muddy sand (2).