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Polychaetes have a variety of ways of reproduction. Asexual reproduction does occur. In some species a rather peculiar way of sexual reproduction has evolved. At the tail end the segments slowly change into new organisms.
Since November 1998 in South Africa, the legal collection and then only by hand of bristle-worms ( better known as polychaetes) for angling bait has been restricted to ten per person on any given day.
Polychaetes ('many hairs') belong to a phylum of cylindrical soft-bodied invertebrates, Annelida, which date from the Paleozoic era. An annelid's body structure consists of a fluid-filled 'tube-within-a-tube', or coelum, with a projection that resembles a head at one end.