What the...?

Fish & Invertebrate sightings and descriptions, hosted by resident NWDC ID expert Janna Nichols (nwscubamom).
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Furnari
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Saw these swimming through the water column at Port Orford, OR last weekend. Sometimes individually, sometimes in "schools". None of my books show this, so any help is appreciated. BTW, recommendations for a better invert book is also appreciated.
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Dusty2
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Your lucky to have lived to tell. Those are Martian vampire worms :eek: :rofl:

Looks like a polycate worm of some sort but that's about as far as I would venture into Leslie's world. Worms are a very tough group of critters to ID without actual samples.
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Yeah, they're pretty neat to watch but they do weird a guy out a little...
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Furnari wrote:Yeah, they're pretty neat to watch but they do weird a guy out a little...
They're the main reason to wear a hood. I wouldn't want those things boring into my ears and EATING MY BRAIN.
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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
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By the way, they don't eat brains. They prefer intestines.
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Thanks for the info!
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