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title: "Honingraat-zandkokerworm"
description: "Sabellaria alveolata — Andere dieren. Sabellaria alveolata, (also known as the honeycomb worm), is a reef-forming polychaete."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/honeycomb-worm
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Honingraat-zandkokerworm

> Sabellaria alveolata — Andere dieren. Sabellaria alveolata,  (also known as the honeycomb worm), is a reef-forming polychaete.

- Scientific name: *Sabellaria alveolata*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1967
- Wikidata: [Q1147658](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1147658)
- iNaturalist taxon: [338082](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/338082)

## Names

- en: Honeycomb Worm
- de: Röhren-Sandkoralle
- fr: Hermelle
- nl: Honingraat-zandkokerworm

## Countries with the most observations

GB (641), PT (533), FR (284), IE (86), ES (33), IT (22), MA (8), AL (3)

## Summary

Sabellaria alveolata,  (also known as the honeycomb worm), is a reef-forming polychaete. It is distributed around the Mediterranean Sea, and from the north Atlantic Ocean to south Morocco. It is also found in the British Isles at its northern limit in the northeast Atlantic. Its common name is derived from the honeycomb-like pattern it creates when building its tube reefs.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabellaria_alveolata

## Photo

![Honingraat-zandkokerworm](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/honeycomb-worm/medium.jpg)

Photo: Victor · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170319119

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/honeycomb-worm?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).