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ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:02 pm
by Scubie Doo
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!
Jesse
Re: ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:21 pm
by Dusty2
Good luck on that, I haven't seen Leslie on here in quite awhile and she is the worm expert.
ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:00 pm
by Scubie Doo
Ok, I am pretty sure the first is a scaleworm. The second has me baffled though, anyone????
Re: ID Help on a couple of firsts for me...
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 12:40 pm
by LeslieH
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...
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 2:11 pm
by dwashbur
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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