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You're right on the first - scaleworm, family Polynoidae. Usually worms can't be id'ed to species or even genus unless they're under a microscope as many of the diagnostic characters are too small to be photographed. The other two are of the detached rear end of a terebellid.

Scubie Doo wrote: The coolest part of the dive was a cool worm we found in a bottle. !

I agree. Hololepida magna. The common name is tin can worm because it's often found inside cans and bottles brought up by trawls. One picked an old rubber boot for a home.

John has some sort of bryozoan with uncalcified zooids. Look up Flustrellidra corniculata - probably not the right species but similar. http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Bryozoa/Class_Gymnolaemata/Order_Ctenostomata/Flustrellidra_corniculata.html Alex's photo is...

By the way, they don't eat brains. They prefer intestines.

Cool. that's a daytime swarm of the polychaete Epigamia magna. It might be in Lamb & Hanby as Autolytus magnus. You can see more pics of them at http://wetpixel.com/articles/wetpixel-a ... rip-report

What's "eating into his brain" isn't a worm. Those coils are the egg cases of a parasitic copepod. Yuck!

First & second images show Serpula columbiana; the third is Crucigera zygophora. You can tell the difference by the shape of the structure where the operculum joins the stalk. In Serpula the operculum & stalk merge with just a slight constriction but in Crucigera there's 2 to 4 lobes.

Hi Bob - Your "worm" with its bracelet is pretty interesting. I've been sent a couple of photos of this particular association before and I don't think it's documented in the scientific literature. The worm is a sea cucumber, some sort of Synaptidae. The bracelet is a scaleworm, probably a...

Lovely worm pic. That's a species of Phyllodoce.

That's probably right. Really nice find Dave!

It is a terebellid. It's curled up so the ventral side is showing. I won't venture a guess as to the genus without seeing the dorsal side but it's neither Thelepus or Pista.

Hi everyone - Greg Jensen was at the museum yesterday & diplomatically reminded me that I was a flake for not showing up here more often. So.... Not really an epitoke, just an egg-filled polychaete in the family Cirratulidae. Epitokes usually have distinct modifications of the body. This one doe...