Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California

Compiled & photographed by Gary McDonald, Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tubulanus sexlineatus (Griffin, 1898)               
Six-lined Ribbon Worm
Nemertea: Anopla: Paleonemertea: Tubulanidae
Geographic Range: Sitka, AK to southern California. Synonyms: Carinella dinema, Carinella sexlineata
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Carmel Pt. (south), Monterey Co., CA; 10 Apr 2008.

Description: Dorsal surface deep brown with five narrow, (sometimes discontinuous) longitudinal, white stripes, with indications of a sixth stripe midventrally; body encircled by up to about 150 white bands.
Size: Typically about 20cm in length, but my stretch up to 1.5m in length.

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Carmel Pt. (south), Monterey Co., CA; 10 Apr 2008.
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Carmel Pt. (south), Monterey Co., CA; 10 Apr 2008.

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