electron microscope view of a hydrothermal vent polychaete deep sea worm

This little cutie is Nereis sandersi, a polychaete worm that makes its home in deep-sea geothermal vents.

꒰ candy striped polychaete (Dorvillea moniloceras) 🍭 .˳⁺⁎˚ ⋆

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It's #FakemonFriday and #InternationalPolychaeteDay , so I want to see YOUR fakemon based on polychaete worms!

Mermegg -> Wermaid
Flowerm -> Vermenace
Squorm -> Ragrand -> Bobbilisk (Jaws In, Jaws Out)
Canibble

Keel worm (Pomatoceros triqueter) tubes.
This species of polychaete worm builds a protective calcareous tube on stones or the shells of other sea creatures - from it's safety it filter feeds for plankton that drifts by. County Clare, Ireland.

Ok finally the hellscape that is April 1st is over

Anyways,
A fan interpretation of King Ghidorah (Trimantias rex)

Depicted as a group of predatory polychaete worms that inhabit one “body”. The heads and “legs” correspond to three separate individuals.

A syllid polychaete worm with Salvador Dali mustache

Polychaete worms are a diverse group of marine worms found in oceans around the world. They have bristle-like structures called chaetae along their bodies and come in many shapes and sizes.

Some polychaete species float freely in the water column like this one, while others live

strange polychaete worm

Heard you like worms, so here's a worm that lives in a worm.

I've written a post about Veneriserva pygoclava - a polychaete worm which has evolved a tapeworm-like body in order to live inside sea mice, which are another type of polychaete worm
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/03/veneri…

Polychaete Worm

Polychaetes are a large and extremely diverse group of around 10,000 species.

Most are marine. Some, such as featherduster worms, are sedentary, living in tubes buried in sand or mud, and feed by trapping food particles in mucus or by ciliary action.

On the

Phyllodoce maculata (plankton) larva: P. maculata is an planktonic polychaete (kind of marine 'annelid'. ie segmented, worm), around 6 cm in length.

This larva is in 'trochophore' state: a round, small, translucent, free-swimming larva characteristic of marine annelids. this

It's a joy for polychaete enthusisasts to see that christmas tree worms are the protagonists of marine-merry-christmas-cards. Obviously I have to hope on the trend so here is my addition! This one reminds me of the snowy trees from my home in Switzerland🥺
#WormWednesday

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A rock coated in Keel worm (Pomatoceros triqueter) casings. The hard protective burrows this species of polychaete worm build to live in.
County Clare, Ireland.

Honeycomb worm (Sabellaria alveolata) reefs. This species of polychaete worm lives in colonies within a reef structure that they build using sand and shells. County Clare, Ireland.

Eulagisca gigantea is a bizarre polychaete worm that grows to 30cm & can evert its mouthparts!

(Photo JC Mendoza)

Killdeer Plover (Charadrius vociferus), with polychaete worm

#WaderWednesday #birds #birdphotography #photography #photooftheday #BirdsOfTwitter

Here’s a picture of a Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm under a microscope to cheer everyone up