TGIF: Polychaete
Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Date Posted: March 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Date Posted: March 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM
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March 27, 2009 at 12:08 PMKevin Z
I love it when you can see the pharynx inside! Cool find!
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March 30, 2009 at 10:51 PMLeslie
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.
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April 7, 2009 at 11:06 PMClimate Shifts » Climate Shifts » The worm will turn: a tale of a (large) marine polychaete
[...] 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 [...]
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August 20, 2009 at 6:33 PMDeepC Wormz R Da Bomb | Deep Sea News
[...] 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 [...]
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