Found these two critters around the boat ramp in about 20' of water. The orange "worm" was creeping around in an indentation in the sand. The "scaleworm" was on a kelp leave and I originally thought it was the arm of a star fish. Can anyone help with a positive ID? Thanks!
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Good luck on that, I haven't seen Leslie on here in quite awhile and she is the worm expert.
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Ok, I am pretty sure the first is a scaleworm. The second has me baffled though, anyone????
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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.
Re: ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
Welcome back!LeslieH wrote: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.
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