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Image of Halosydna brevisetosa Kinberg 1856
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These free-living polychaetes have eighteen pairs of overlapping scales. Sometimes they live commensally in the tubes of other polychaetes or in moon snail shells occupied by hermit crabs.
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Closeup showing dorsal scales that overlie the organism's dorsal surface. Sexes are separate, and fertilization is external.