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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 11

A specimen of the mud worm, known as lilchiurus Novaezealandiao, which was taken in tho scoop of a dredge working in Tauranga Harbour, has been received by the curator of the Auckland Museum from Mr. John Williams, of Tauranga, states tho "Now Zealand Herald." It is a stout, sausage-shaped creature, with a short proboscis or funnel at the mouth end by which it pumps in water containing the tiny creatures on which it feeds. Some species have this proboscis twice as long as the body, and these forms live in deep crevices in the rocks; keeping up communication with the outside world by means of the proboscis. Tho Echiurus lives in a tube in the sand or mud, but it often changes its home. It is sometimes used by fishermen as bait, particularly in Japan.