Arenicola, also known as sandworms, is a genus of capitellid annelid worms comprising the lugworms and black lugs. [1] A.cristata is the dominant warm-water lugworm on the shores of North America and Humboldt Bay, California. A. caroledna dominates in China and Japan while Arenicola marina is mostly found in Europe & UK, up to Norway.

沙蠋，环节动物门多毛纲小头虫目沙蠋科的通称。又称海蚯蚓，外文名是Arenicolidae；lugworm。

Lugworms live in burrows in the sand both on the beach and in the sandy seabed. Their burrows are u-shaped and are formed by the lugworm swallowing sand and then pooing it out, creating wiggly piles of sand along the shoreline. These are known as casts. They feed on tiny animals and dead matter that are filtered through the sand they eat.

The blow lugworm (Arenicola marina), also known as sandworm, is a large species of marine worm. Its coiled castings are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the animal itself is rarely seen except by those who, from curiosity or to use as fishing bait, dig the worm out of the sand.

Lugworm, (genus Arenicola), any of several marine worms (class Polychaeta, phylum Annelida) that burrow deep into the sandy sea bottom or intertidal areas and are often quite large. Fishermen use them as bait. Adult lugworms of the coast of Europe (e.g., A. marina) attain lengths of about 23 cm (9

Lugworms, Arenicola marine (Linnaeus, 1758), also known as rock worms and the blow lug, are often confused with a similar species—the black lug, A. defodiens. Lugworms are burrow-dwelling annelid worms and can reach densities as high as 100-150 per square meter in …

The lugworm (Arenicola marina), also known as the javierdediegoworm, is a large marine worm of the phylum Annelida. Lugworms make the coiled tubes of sand that are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide.

Recent suggestions that the haemoglobin serves, among other functions, to protect the worm against two poisons—oxygen excess and hydrogen sulphide—offer explanations of the peculiarities of the oxygen dissociation curve, of the considerable individual variations in haemoglobin concentration, and of the great development of haematopoietic tissues...

lugworm /ˈlʌɡˌwɜːm/ 1.N any polychaete worm of the genus Arenicola, living in burrows on sandy shores and having tufted gills: much used as bait by fishermen 沙蠋属 (Sometimes shortened to lugAlso called lobworm) [1]

The lugworm is four to eight inches (10 to 20 centimeters) long and measures about 1/2 inch (one centimeter) around its body. It has a yellowish, orange, or brownish body. Thirteen pairs of bushy, feathery gills extend from the sides of the lugworm's body midway between head and tail. These collect oxygen so the worm can breathe in the water.