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Yes, the acoels have tails. Do a search on acoel or amphiscolops to see a few. That one really caught my eye when I checked out your website. I think it's the lovechild of a nemertean and a flatworm :D I can send it round to a couple of friends/ invert experts and see what they say.

There are a number of polychaete worms which produce mucus egg sacs and I'm pretty sure that's what you photographed.

I'm not sure they're branchs at all. There's no sign of the lateral flaps or divisions normal aglajids have, just the smooth body. I suspect acoel flatworms. By the way, I'm glad to see you're blog posting again!

:cheering: Arch! :beerchug: Okay, thumbnails are up.... Mr. X & Arch are right. it's the tube of the burrowing cerianthid anemone Pachycerianthus fimbriatus. Maybe there's even a anemone inside. The tube's made out of multiple layers of solidified mucus binding layers of silt. Lots of...

Close but not cigar-worthy! The broad marginal band on G. cincta is blue while this one is white. Try Glossodoris hikuerensis http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=gloshiku

Leslie would love to see it but nothing happens when she clicks on the attached thumbnails..... Arch - "fruity-looking"?

All the time. In addition to my own work I get invited to join expeditions just to do the microscope photography. Take a look at the Guana website, particularly the worms & small crustaceans, to see examples of the small stuff. http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/home.htm

Hi Rick - Can you give us some more information on Shipp's guide? Name, if it's on the web, how to get it, etc. thanks, Leslie

If more people posted more worms I wouldn't be forced to amuse myself with trying to id inferior animals! Sigh.....

Bella's right - it's not a worm & it is the nudibranch Pteraeolidia ianthina.

It's a juvenile sweetlips.

Yes, Chloeia is one of the infamous fireworms. Some of the fireworms are fairly dull in appearance so color isn't a warning sign. The bristles (= setae) are normally carried vertically or pointed down but when threatened the uppermost bristles are puffed-up vertically in defense - that's the...

It's Chloeia flava. These are fairly common in sand or muck areas while the most abundant tropical fireworm is Hermodice carunculata in coral or rocky areas. By the way I love your gallery & all your great invert shots. Found it about a year ago. I've got it bookmarked & check it...

the worms get everybody in the end...... ;)

What worm people? Where? Was I cloned & did someone forget to tell me?

Et tu, Isurus, et tu? :broken_he Now Rick, on the other hand, is my kind of guy! :kissykiss

You should have, just as I would expect you to comment on anything deep sea, spiny skinned, covered in your classes, etc. We're both knowledgable, opinionated people! ;) And actually I agree with you about "more fan worms. Bleah!" There are so many other adorable worms that skipped over in...

I'll agree with Bispira but not with B. brunnea, at least not without a specimen in hand! There are a lot more clustering species in the "Greater Caribbean" (as one colleague puts it) than just brunnea.

Great image. This is Philinopsis gardineri