Polychaeta | 
Aciculata | 
Pilargidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Benthic.  Subtropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Northwest and Western Central Pacific:  China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Indonesia.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Found in sediments with high content of silt and clay. Can also be found in coarser substrate composed of sand and gravel (Ref. 124802).  Motile carnivore that has a jawed pharynx (Ref. 125872).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Members of the class Polychaeta are mostly gonochoric (sexual).  Mating:  Females produce a pheromone attracting and signalling the males to shed sperm which in turn stimulates females to shed eggs, this behavior is known as swarming.  Gametes are spawned through the metanephridia or body wall rupturing (termed as "epitoky", wherein a pelagic, reproductive individual, "epitoke", is formed from a benthic, nonreproductive individual, "atoke").  After fertilization, most eggs become planktonic; although some are retained in the worm tubes or burrowed in jelly masses attached to the tubes (egg brooders).  Life Cycle:  Eggs develop into trocophore larva, which later metamorph into juvenile stage (body lengthened), and later develop into adults.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Zheng, Y., X. Chen, J. Chen, Y. Wang, X. Shen, W. Chen and C. Li 2003 Biological resources and the environment in East China Sea. Scientific Technology Publishing of Shanghai, 835 p. (Ref. 75927)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
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