Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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I love it when you can see the pharynx inside! Cool find!
Pharynx and proventricle, very nice! It’s family Syllidae, subfamily Eusyllinae, genus Eusyllis, and if there had been just a little tighter focus on the setae we would have had species.
[...] it’s fortunate that they didn’t comment on the hyper cool, but horror movie inspiring, evertable pharynx and the jaws which look awfully like giant fangs.” Have a read through the original newspaper [...]
[...] that flamboyant.”. Apparently someone has never taken a real look at the polychaetes (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here) . Video of these species are [...]