Here are some of the shapes of various families of polychaetes:

dorsal-ventrally flat
flattened from top and bottom

Syllidae

Palmyridae

Aphroditidae

Spionidae

Pilargiidae

Hesionidae

Phyllodocidae


cylindrical
long with flat ends

Cirratulidae

Eunicidae

Glyceridae

Sternapsidae


fusiform
rounded and tapering from middle towards end

Opheliidae

Opheliidae


tapered
narrowing towards the end

Terebellidae


trumpetshaped
broad and narrow at opposite ends

Pectinariidae


elongated
long and thin

Trichobranchidae


vermiform
wavy

Lacydoniidae


oval
egg or ecllipse shaped
Sigalionidae


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