A beautiful but frustrating #WormWednesday capitellid posterior. It slithered out of a empty clam burrow in a shale reef fragment. ~150 mm long w/ retractile branchiae. Live & preserved pics. I hammered that rock for a week trying to find the rest of the worm but no luck

RoboWorms! Nick Gravish's lab at UCSD just published on a Nereis-inspired digging robot #WormWednesday gravishlab.ucsd.edu/PDF/Robosoft_2…

Poor little nereid trying to avoid becoming dinner for Perenemertes peregrina. Tragically the nereid lost 😭 Video by POB P O B x.com/Kelporama/stat… #WormWednesday

Pretty, petite, & possibly undescribed. Protula sp found by @CSULBLarvalLab two weeks ago in San Diego Bay, California, a hotbed of introduced species. Now "living" in the NHMLA worm room. We'll be going back to collect more #WormWednesday

😍 Wonderful slow motion of a Notophyllum swimming for #WormWednesday. Video by Fumihiko Hirai x.com/uta_31/status/…

I love this species so much! Had to share the full body view of the candy cane worm Dorvillea moniloceras now at #NHMLA This beauty wasn't even the brightest one but it was the most cooperative #WormWednesday

Are you or someone you know an expert on marine invertebrates and interested in conservation? We are forming an IUCN Species Survival Commission Marine Invertebrates Red List Authority to assess extinction risk in these important creatures! Please retweet and DM me if interested!

Am I a heretic posting non-polychaetes for #WormWednesday? In my world, yes. Some nemerteans I photographed last year - Tubulanus sexalineatus, Amphiporus bimaculatus, Cerebratulus lineolatus from southern California. Now waiting at Natural History Museum of L.A. County for some researcher to love them

Worm vs Snake! Snake eel pulls a giant eunicid out of its tube by rapidly spinning & winding the worm around its body. I've seen this behavior filmed once before; in that video the victim was E. aphroditois. Great UW capture by seamandoman x.com/seamandoman/st…

Final week! Undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited degree-granting program, don't miss the submission period for the #NHMLA Collections Study Awards, closing October 1: nhm.org/student-collec…

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Love polychaetes? It's time to submit for the NHM Polychaete Student Collection Support grants, deadline Oct 1st. International master's & doctoral students are eligible. See nhm.org/student-collec… Interested? Know someone who would benefit? Contact me #polychaetes Natural History Museum of L.A. County

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The Polychaete Section Natural History Museum of L.A. County has 3 US$1000 awards just for polychaete students as part of our Student Collection Study program. Next deadline is April 1 so hurry & get them in! Details at nhm.org/student-collec… Contact me or Kirk Fitzhugh for help applying #polychaete #grant

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