That uncomfortable moment where I hope the common name “Bloodworm”
Has nothing to do with it extracting my blood. Seen yesterday on a zero tide. #polychaete #bloodworm #tidepooling
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Sample came straight from Zebes 👾 #polychaete #worm #worms #microscopy #microorganisms
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Closeup of A. branchialis against a black background. It is very clearly segmented. Every 5 segments is a chaetiger (bristle-carrying segment). Later (on from chaetiger 11 or 12) the worm has very pronounced branchiae that were definitely not a nightmare ar all to draw the black background around, I promise you. :)
Haven’t posted a polychaete in a while… :)
This one’s Arenicolides branchialis. I love this very deep and dark iridescent green colour it has. In person it looked almost black.
#polychaete #worm #WormWednesday
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Example images from the experiment. Extending from its 7 cm long natural (darker) tube located on the surface of transparent glass beads, individual L. conchilega (visible in red) re-built tubes from glass beads several centimeters long in narrow (0.6 cm wide) aquaria.
Nienke Zwaferink & co use a novel laboratory method to reveal how #temperature affects tube-building activity in a habitat-forming worm, improving understanding of performance limits and its ability to support coastal ecosystems under climate change. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
#Polychaete #Stress
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Christmas Tree Worms :3 #nature #animal #photography #worm #sealife #polychaete #ocean #reef #invertebrate #cute #fascinating #unusual #beautiful #life #livingbeing #pretty #wildlife #annelid #colorful
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Star-shaped worm colonies? ✨🪱
Our new paper describes 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, named after Mauritania’s Baie de l’Étoile (Bay of Stars).
Open access & featured on the Feb cover of Ecology & Evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#newspecies #polychaete #taxonomy
@sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social
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An interview about our last published paper on #polychaete #cryopreservation thanks to out great collaborators at University of Viena.
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a sketchpage with several depictions of a strange six-legged creature; somewhere between a bird and a pterosaur, with the complex mandible-like mouthparts of a polychaete worm. one specimen seems quite put together, wearing a lab coat and protective goggles. another sits on the ground, long legs gently folded under its slender thorax, cradling a bladed weapon pensively.
commission i did last year for @noegenhed.art of his fantastic critters! :D
SO fun working with novel anatomy like this.
#JACQALart #art #furryart #commission #polychaete #sketch #sketchpage
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Terebellid worm against a black background. It has a lot of white tentacle-like appendages at the front that curl into little springs and curls. A bit behind there's a pair of tree-like branchae. The first few segments are thickened with prominent (but small) parapodia(?). Behind that the animal gradually gets thinner and smoother. It starts out a fleshy pink colour with brighter reds and oranges towards the middle of the worm and transparent at the back. It currently has a bit of sediment in its guts which gives the transparent part a brown appearance.
With Crustmas going on right now, it's easy to forget that it is #WormWednesday, too!
This is an unidentified Terebellid worm. It may be Amphitrides gracilis, but I'm far from certain.
#MarineLife #Polychaete #Worm
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I slowed down this vid in the beginning, but let it get to its actual real speed - crazy!
Admittedly, I kept wondering how this #polychaete #worm would be in a marinara sauce, covered in pecorino romano🤤
Shot in #Okinawa.
#marineworm #polychaeteworm
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A bluish transparen-ish worm, with many pairs of legs paddling in an elegant synchronized fashion. Ink and watercolor.
Tomopteris sp. - gossamer worm (2019)
#invertebrates #polychaete #worms #WorldOctopusDay #art #sciart
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Closeup of P. mucosa on a black background. The worm is yellowish with brown spots and has a turquoise underside. It has transparent paddles on each segment and 6 long tentacular cirri on its head as well as four little antennae.
I've not been very active recently, but I'm back for this #WormWednesday with a polychaete from my favourite Genus: Phyllodoce. :D
I think, this is P. mucosa.
#polychaete #worm #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #marinelife
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#horrorcore #weirdcore #aiimages #iconoplasm #AIArt #AIArtist #AIArtwork #GenArt #DigitalArt #AIArtGallery #AIGeneratedArt #AIArtCommunity #monster #horrorart #digitalart #fantasyai #synthart #lovecraft #polychaete #frog #antlion #fish
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Fossil Friday #279: Meringosoma sp. from the Solnhofen #fossils #paleontology #FossilFriday #worm #polychaete #germany #worms #solnhofen
www.esconi.org/esconi_earth...
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Had time to finish another Aliens dive’s memory card from May 6&8, 2024.
1) #Phronima with behbehies in a fantastically-colored salp
2/3) #Siphonophore (don’t lick)
4) #Ctenophore
5) #Swordfish
6) #Polychaete worm
7) #Scaleworm
8) Ctenophore
9) #MantisShrimp
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The ocean is a terrifying yet fascinating place.
That eDNA sample will get swamped by #polychaete sperm.
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a polychaete that’s part of the family Terebellidae. found in some recent sediment samples
#polychaete #marinebiology #invertebrate
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In order, we have:
1) #Louvar
2) #swordfish
3) #flyingfish
4) #cuskeel
5) #ipnops
6) #siphonophore (don’t lick 👅)
7) #polychaete worm
8) sargassum #filefish
#deepseafish #larvalfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #scubadiving #ocean #gugunderwater #gug
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Happy International #Polychaete Day to all those who celebrate! 🪱📷 Earlier this year we were pleased to interview Species Discovery Awardee Laetitia Gunton, about her work with these overlooked engineers of the ocean floor. oceancensus.org/unearthing-m...
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Painting of a coiled benthic invertebrate worm in paint made from sea mud
Happy #internationalpolychaeteday to all who celebrate!
#Sea #art 🧪 #artsciencecollaboration #polychaete #Nephtyscaeca #ocean #benthos #benthicinvertebrate
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Close-up image of a small fossil polychaete "bristle worm". The slightly curved body is preserved as a flattened film on a flecked grey mudstone matrix. Small paired bundles of lateral setae show up as silvery reflections along the length of the worm. A dark, slightly reflective ribbon-like trace down the mid-line marks the gut. The "head" of the worm is to the right, and at the rear end a short dark stain is interpreted as gut contents extruded after burial. This is yet another superb specimen in the Invertebrate Palaeontology collections of the Royal Ontario Museum. For more information, see: https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/fossils/burgessochaeta-setigera/
Gotta slip in a late-in-the-day #WormWednesday post: Burgessochaeta setigera is a #fossil stem-group #polychaete from the #BurgessShale. Nice reflective setae in this specimen + an infilled gut trace. Approx. 25 mm long - anterior to right. #Cambrian (~508 MYA), #YohoNP, #BritishColumbia 🇨🇦
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bobbit worm comm for @manatjerk.bsky.social !
#SciArt #polychaete #PixelArt #PixelArtist #aseprite #art #ArtPH
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A low angle view of a dense aggregation of sabellid worms. These live in tubes which are whitish and upright and from their top the worm emerges. Only their tentacular crowns are visible - a feathery, flowery light blue crown with a few dark spots. The sabellid field is bright in the foreground, illuminated by the lights of the remotely operated underwater vehicle, and dark blue above.
A view of the same sabellid field from.a higher angle - the field of feathery crowns stretches far into the background of the photo until.it becomes one with the dark background.
Last week we explored an area with our new ROV and came across this gorgeous field of sabellid #polychaete worms. We don't know the species and generally not much about these aggregations. But they are very beautiful! #wormwednesday
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A roughly kidney-shaped ironstone concretion, split lengthwise and opened to show the inner surfaces of both symmetrical halves. In the centre of each half is the pale brown outline of a fossilized, soft-bodied, segmented marine worm, contrasting with the darker brown matrix. The head, at the top of the concretion, faces inward and bears a pair of short diverging tentacles. In the centre of the head region on the left half of the split are paired jaw elements, preserved as tiny black structures; these appear only as impressions on the right half. Behind the head, the segmented body extends towards the lower portion of the concretion and curves smoothly up in a short loop. The tail bears a pair of bundle of long hair-like setae. Parapodia appear as short blunt projections from the sides of the body, and in places short setae can be seen at their tips. The outer rim of the split concretion shows an orange coloured weathering rind. This superb specimen is part of a large Mazon Creek collection held in the Invertebrate Palaeontology section of the Royal Ontario Museum.
#WormWednesday Exquisite "soft-bodied" #fossil preservation of Esconites zelus - a Late #Carboniferous (~305 MYA) eunicid #polychaete from the #MazonCreek #Lagerstatte, IL. Part & counterpart of sideritic concretion (~8 cm long) showing body outline w parapodia & setae, "head" tentacles & mandibles.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a study of Kingnites, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. Kingnites, is an exceptionally large (1m long) Silurian polychaete annelid.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Kingnites #Silurian #Polychaete #Annelid #Worm #Fossil
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A closeup photo of the head of Nereididae indet. against a black background. There are four pairs of tentacular cirri, two of which are long, and the other two short (about half the size of the long ones. The worm also has two small antennae, two palps, and a pair of red eyes. According to some of my fellow students its face looks kinda like a cow. :D In the lower part of the image you can see some of the parapodia with gills and chetae.
It's #WormWednesday, so I have another polychaete for you!
It's a member of the Nereididae, some of which have jaws made of a very strong but light material. Who knows... Maybe we'll have spaceships made of worm-tooth one day!
#MarineLife #Worm #Polychaete #Invertebrates #Macro #MacroPhotography
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Celebrating my recent paper published in Development with a new art from my #sci-art project Wormly Speaking. “With Maturity”
#annelid #worm #art #comics #love #resilience #peace #polychaete
#WormWednesday
Visit Wormly Speaking: rannypribeiro.github.io/sci-art/comi...
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Close-up shot of the polychaete (bristle worm) Eulalia clavigera against a black background. Its body is a dark golden-green at the front, fading into almost blue towards the end. However, the very tip of the tail is regenerating and is therefore almost yellow. Each segment has a pair of dorsal cirri which (as is typical for its family, Phyllodocidae) form leaf-like paddles. On this individual they are rather slender, yellow towards the base, and dark green towards their tips. This creates the illusion of two yellow stripes going down the worm's body. The head bears two reddish eyes and five pale antennae, and the first few segments have four pairs of green tentacular cirri. I always thought they together with the paddles give the Phyllodocidae a dragonish appearance.
Is it a worm? 🪱 Is it a dragon? 🐉
Who knows... (Though, judging by the emojis, I'd say: Definitely the latter!)
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#MarineLife #Polychaete #Worm #NaturePhotography #Macro #MacroPhotography
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Finding headless spionids that look like oligochaetes be like
#yesiknowtothosefamiliarwiththemtheylookdifferent #butitisnearly3AMandIamnotfamiliarwiththeseaworms #polychaete #marinebiology #marinebiostudent
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Anterior end of a polychaete worm of the family Glyceridae. Its huge pharynx is everted and at its end there are four strong black jaws that you definitely do not want to get bitten by. Because pain, but also because toxins.
Glycera #polychaete worm for #wormwednesday. (Also, this was pretty much exactly the monster that attacked our DnD party the other day that we tried to find our way out of that dark cavern... #dungeonsanddragons )
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