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Paraprotis dendrova is a small tubeworm first found on the aquarium wall of Sesoko Marine Science Center, Sesoko Island, Okinawa, at a depth of one meter (4 specimens).
This worm is a solitary small species without an operculum, with a unique reproductive apparatus.
Under its branching crown is a pair of incubating appendages with many eggs and larvae
The tube is usually erect and swirled as in spirorbid polychaetes.
Other localities
-on the underside of boulders on rocks, little sand, subtidal,
-on living Pocillopora verrucosa and dead Acropora sp. in Okinawa.
This worm is a solitary small species without an operculum, with a unique reproductive apparatus.
Under its branching crown is a pair of incubating appendages with many eggs and larvae
The tube is usually erect and swirled as in spirorbid polychaetes.
Other localities
-on the underside of boulders on rocks, little sand, subtidal,
-on living Pocillopora verrucosa and dead Acropora sp. in Okinawa.
