Beautiful spirals of.... poop?! This acorn worm (Tergivelum baldwinae) crawls over the surface of the mud, ingesting sediment, and leaving behind a sinuous “fecal trail”. More on the amazing #deepsea animals MBARI researchers have discovered: ow.ly/Xpv030ovPFk

Strawberry spaghetti worms in the UK have always been identified as Eupolymnia nebulosa but recent research indicates more species to be present. The long gill stems, among other features, places these animals collected from Scotland as Eupolymnia gili instead #WormWednesday

Today’s #WormWednesday post is crayfish worms. Can you see the branchiobdellidans covering this crayfish? The relationship between crayfish and branchiobdellidans can vary from mutualism, to commensalism and parasitism

#IPC special issue #AfricanZoology IPC 2023 #Eunicid polychaete worms used as bait need development of management plans based on their biology and ecology. #Australia #SouthAfrica #France AMRI jyothikara tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

[#newspecies] A new species of Paranerilla Jouin & Swedmark, 1965 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Brazil. ⤵️ Samuel Lucas da Silva Delgado Mendes, Jaqueline Carvalho Rodrigues & Alexandra E. Rizzo 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #Annelida #Paranerilla #taxonomy #Polychaeta

Here's a better video clip of the tomopteris Schmidt Ocean dive 694 #nazcahighseas

Jasmineira filatovae Levenstein, 1961, the deepest known sabellid is a Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919: redescription, new combination and generic emendation mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

Cryptic invasions of Pseudopolydora (#Annelida: Spionidae), with description of a new species from Queensland, #Australia mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

This is our most recent paper with ケムシ屋 : Jimi, N., Britayev, T. A., Sako, M., Woo, S. P. & Martin, D. A new genus and species of nudibranch-mimicking Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta). Sci. Rep. 14, 17123 (2024). doi.org:https://t.co/upJrEhmdYi CEAB-CSIC

MOAR #wormwednesdday!! I'm sorry you have to hear this: some leeches jump. They coil their bodies like cobras zmescience.com/science/news-s… via @zmescience

#wormwednesday The original authors gave it the lovely name of a colleague & regarded Pseudopolydora rosebela as "among the most beautiful spionids ever seen". New molecular work on this species & related taxa, plus a n.sp. from Radashevsky et al. marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aph…

Giant trochophore larva (1 mm) of a Polygordius sp. polychaete worm. Skagerrak, North Sea. You can see two red eyespots, a mouth and a beautiful ciliated band. #polygordius #trochophore #biology #marinebiology #zooplankton #microscopy

#wormwednesday Yes, it's obv S. spallanzanii - with its extra long tube, spiral fan, & dizzyingly complex name history. From Viviani 1805, v obscure, v odd, totally in Latin, where he creates genus Spirographis & observes marine worm 'phosphorescence' marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=so…

#Wormwednesday Why did Ashworth call the genus A-Sclero-Cheilus (cf existing Sclerocheilus = 'hard lips'). We have no idea☹️. Article with 2 new Brazilian Asclerocheilus is inducted into WoRMS. marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aph…

A can of worms – what are marine bristleworms & why are they so important? Think you know worms? These might surprise you. Marine worms can be beautiful, ferocious, wonderous and spectacular. Find out more in our latest blog museum.wales/articles/2654/… Amgueddfa Caerdydd #WormWednesday

Just missing #WormWednesday, an interesting article in the The Guardian about marine bristle worms and their importance from Dr Ceri Lewis. They are amazing and wonderous animals and we are lucky to have two scientists Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales who study them theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Tragic death of talented biologist Stephen Thorpe, of Auckland NZ, a unique personality. Read tributes on iNaturalist here: inaturalist.nz/projects/falle… Stephen even id'd seaworms on occasion - accurately too.

Evaluation of “Cirriformia tentaculata” (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from Japan as a Pollution Indicator in Marine Environments: Is it Truly a Single Species? #polychaetes #worms #newspecies #SpeciesDiversity 🔓doi.org/10.12782/specd…

Just published in Zoosystema this Oweniidae regional revision from Malaysia. It includes two new species, an identification key, and synoptic tables of characters. Follow the link to delve into the complexity and beauty of these worms! sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques…