A sandworm is a Polychaete in the genus Nereis. Orders Amphinomida Capitellida Chaetopterida Cirratulida Cossurida Ctenodrillidae Eunicida Flabelligerida Magelonida Myzostomida Nerillida Opheliida Orbiniida Orweniida Phyllodocida Pisionidae Polygordiida Protodrilida Psammodrilidae Sabellida Spionida Spintheridae Sternaspida Terebellida Tomopteris from plankton The Polychaeta or Polychaetes are a class of annelid worms, generally marine, with a pair of fleshy protrusions on each body segment... The genus Nereis is one of many categorized within the class Polychaete. ...

Sandworms make up a large part of the live seabait industry. "Sandworming", or the harvesting of sandworms from mudflats, employs over 1,000 people in Maine. Currently, a company called Sea Bait is threatening to take over the industry with state support. However, as time goes on, sandworms are actually becoming more scarce because of overharvesting and the inability of many harvesters to allow mudflats to rest before reharvesting. This shows a sandworm which has just been counted for sale after having been freshly harvested. ... This article should be merged with Wormdigger Marine Worm Harvesters are found mostly in the state of Maine. ... State nickname: The Pine Tree State Other U.S. States Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Governor John Baldacci (D) Senators Olympia Snowe (R) Susan Collins (R) Official language(s) None Area 86,542 km² (39th)  - Land 80,005 km²  - Water 11,724 km² (13. ...

Sandworms have many distinguishable traits. They often reach great lengths, sometimes exceeding four feet. They have many small legs that run along both sides of their body. They also have blue heads with two large pincer teeth. Be careful, they bite!

They eat seaweed and many microorganisms found in saltwater. Seaweed covered rocks in the UK Phycologists consider seaweed to refer any of a large number of marine benthic algae that are multicellular, macrothallic (large-bodied), and thus differentiated from most algae that tend towards microscopic size (Smith, 1944). ... A microorganism or microbe is an organism that is so small that it is microscopic (invisible to the naked eye). ...