- Urechis unicinctus
Taxobox | name = "Urechis unicinctus"
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image_caption = "Urechis Unicinctus" as served in a restaurant in Korea.
regnum =Animal ia
subregnum =Eumetazoa
superphylum =Lophotrochozoa
phylum =Echiura
classis =Echiuridae
ordo =Xenopneusta
familia =Urechidae
genus = "Urechis "
species = "U. unicinctus"
binomial = "Urechis unicinctus"
binomial_authority =von Drasche , 1881"Urechis unicinctus" (Korean: 개불 (gae-bool)) is a species of marine spoon worm.
Habitat
"U. unicinctus", like other "Urechis", live in burrows in sand and mud.
Economic use
This spoon worm is commonly eaten raw in China and especially Korea. [Choi, S.D. "et al." (1998) "Studies on the commercial scale production of Urechis unicinctus (von Drasche) in southern Korea" "Bulletin of Yosu National University" 13(2): pp. 973-981. (in Korean with English abstract)]
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