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- Sat May 18, 2013 12:40 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
- Replies: 4
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Re: ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
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.
- Sat May 18, 2013 12:37 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: The ongoing 'Dond Lumpie and Friends Show ...
- Replies: 227
- Views: 21781
Re: The ongoing 'Dond Lumpie and Friends Show ...
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.Scubie Doo wrote: The coolest part of the dive was a cool worm we found in a bottle. !
- Sat May 18, 2013 12:27 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Phoronid?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2257
Re: Phoronid?
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...
- Sat May 18, 2013 12:17 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: What the...?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2181
Re: What the...?
By the way, they don't eat brains. They prefer intestines.
- Sat May 18, 2013 12:14 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: What the...?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2181
Re: What the...?
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
- Sat May 18, 2013 11:53 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Redondo - Feb 09
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1910
Re: Redondo - Feb 09
What's "eating into his brain" isn't a worm. Those coils are the egg cases of a parasitic copepod. Yuck!
- Sat May 18, 2013 11:49 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Tube Worms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2266
Re: Tube Worms
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.
- Sat May 18, 2013 10:01 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: nice day in the Hood ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1443
Re: nice day in the Hood ...
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...
- Sat May 18, 2013 9:53 am
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: WWW 3/20/13
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2321
Re: WWW 3/20/13
Lovely worm pic. That's a species of Phyllodoce.
- Sat May 18, 2013 9:51 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Mystery Worm
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1362
Re: Mystery Worm
That's probably right. Really nice find Dave!
- Sat May 18, 2013 9:47 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Worm ID help needed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1819
Re: Worm ID help needed
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.
- Sat May 18, 2013 9:42 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: ID on this brightly colored worm...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2320
Re: ID on this brightly colored worm...
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...