{{Short description|Species of annelid worm}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | genus = Chaetopterus | species = longipes | authority = Crossland, 1904 }} '''''Chaetopterus longipes''''' is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite taxon |WoRMS |title=''Chaetopterus longipes'' Crossland, 1904 |id=336416 |access-date=8 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Crossland |first= Cyril |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99486 |title=The Polychaeta of the Maldive Archipelago from the collections made by J. Stanley Gardiner in 1899. Chaetopteridae and part of the Eunicidae |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1904 |publisher=Academic Press, [etc.] |volume=74|issue=1|pages= 270-286, plates XVIII-XIX |location=London |doi= 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08291.x }}</ref>
==Biology and distribution== ''Chaetopterus longipes'' is a highly gregarious parchment worm that forms aggregations of hundreds of worms.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nishi |first1=E. |year=1996 |title=Dense aggregation of ''Chaetopterus longipes'' Crossland, 1904 (Chaetopteridae, Polychaeta) in coral reefs at Okinawa, Japan |journal=Natural History Research |volume=4 |issue= |pages=41–47 |doi=10.13140/2.1.3180.0005}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nishi |first1=E. |last2=Hickman |first2=CP Jr |last3=Bailey-Brock |first3=J. |year=2009 |title=''Chaetopterus'' and ''Mesochaetopterus'' (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae) from the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of four new species |journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |volume=158 |issue=1 |pages=239–259 |doi=10.1635/053.158.0113 |bibcode=2009PANSP.158..239N }}</ref> It occurs in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.<ref name="WoRMS" />
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Category:Polychaetes Category:Fauna of the Maldives Category:Taxa named by Cyril Crossland Category:Animals described in 1904
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