Hence citizen scientists unknowingly captured both of them multiple times around those corals across the central Indo-Pacific. The worms mostly placed themselves in the burrows of the corals ...

Pat Hutchings, a marine biologist focused on studying marine worms, visited Bora-Bora in 2015 while on vacation and decided ...

They are known for their distinctive appearance with two brightly coloured, spiral "crowns" that resemble a Christmas tree, protruding from a tube-like body ...

She carefully removed the worm from its hiding spot ... They live in self-constructed tubes, attach themselves to the underside of corals and, as adults, generally “do not move around.” ...