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Geoff Read

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Marine annelid taxonomist, Aotearoa

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · Apr 4

The journey to discover New Zealand marine annelids starts here: niwa.co.nz/biodiversity... Kingdom Animalia, phylum Annelida (bristleworms & kin). Chapt 18, in Kelly et al, Dec 2023. Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand

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🪱Ekin Tilic @etilic.bsky.social · 12h

Meet Spinther bohnorum n. sp. Tilic & Rouse 2025 ✨— a tiny but stunning worm!

Spinther species are enigmatic worms that always seem to dwell on sponges, but we still don’t know exactly where they belong on the annelid tree of life. A shiny small mystery wrapped in glitter, basically. 😅🪱

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · 1d

@mucofloris.bsky.social @tuexplorer1.bsky.social Haven't seen the orig stream but definitely not a Swima (Acrocirridae). Did sci crew say it was a Swima? It's one of the silvery swimming polynoid scale worms relatively common in the deep mid Pacific. Swima don't forage on the bottom.

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · 2d

Well spotted Rachel. Some sort of Cnidarian maybe? New to me.

Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa indeed! What life form is that? #WormWednesday

Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa, check that out! I figure it's a worm, but I've never seen tubes like this coming off the seafloor. Wait for it... @nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, go to the observation @inaturalist.bsky.social and zoom the head. It's a fantastic head-on shot by diver Luca for 'in the wild'

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 22d

SO MANY PATTERN! from India! Hesione ceylonica! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Hesione ceylonica

Hesione ceylonica from India on October 17, 2024 at 04:40 PM by Sachin Rane🐾

www.inaturalist.org

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 15d

LONG ARM= genus Longibrachium! Wotta critter! Wotta set of prongs! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Longibrachium arariensis

Longibrachium arariensis from Komodo, Komodo, Manggarai, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia on August 28, 2015 at 06:40 PM by Mark Rosenstein

www.inaturalist.org

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · Sep 11

Nightmare fuel for corals: The Bearded Fireworm 😱🔥🪱🪸 #beardedfireworm #fireworm #nightmarefuel #corallivore #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Usually, when something or someone touches a Christmas tree worm's feathery radioles, it would immediately retract back into its hole.

But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles.
#Invertebrate 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Four photos of a striped coral blenny perch on and around a Christmas tree worm. The bottom two photos have red circles indicating where the blenny's tail fins are touching the worm's radioles.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Aug 29

Porcelain crabs are the icon of "fooled ya, not crab". But Eulenaios cometes goes further by living inside a worm tube!

(Actually, several true and false crabs, and a second worm, are all up in these tubes wtf) 🦀🧪🦑 #InverteFest

peerj.com/articles/2930/

Symbiotic species associated with Chaetopterus cf. appendiculatus: (A, B) the porcelain crab Eulenaios cometes (female and male, respectively); (C) Ophthalmonoe pettibonneae, the other symbiont worm.

The host worm! Chaetopterus cf. appendiculatus: (A) whole worm; (B) tube; (C) detail of inner tube surface. Chaetopterus sp.: (D) whole worm; (E) tube; (F) detail of inner tube surface. Scale bars are 5 cm.

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · Aug 22

Janet's death notice - out today. Open for memories, condolences.
deaths.stuff.co.nz/nz/obituarie...

Janet GRIEVE Obituary (2025) - The Press

View Janet Mary GRIEVE's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

deaths.stuff.co.nz

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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sad news that Dr Janet (Bradford) Grieve passed away on Saturday. She was a world expert in Copepods, a pioneering woman in biological oceanography in NZ and first women to lead a marine research voyage in nz with her first voyage in 1967. She was a role model, a mentor and a leader.

Janet Grieve - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yes, the famous (infamous?) multiple stolonising Myrianida pachycera

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wow. Scale worm? OP reads "Plankton fr the coast of Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Body length 0.7mm. Perhaps a polychaete larva? It has a distinctive transparent disc-like structure, .. Its eyes are cute too." via @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9 #wormwednesday

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🪱Ekin Tilic @etilic.bsky.social · Aug 16

Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com

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James Ashway @jamesashway.bsky.social · Jul 8

What did bone worms eat before whales? Marine reptiles!
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons | Natural History Museum

Bone-eating worms have been cleaning up the ocean floor for over 100 million years.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hey Star Trek nerds, FYI there's Gagh IRL, and they're called palolo.
They're polychaete worms, or more specifically the detached, self-propelled reproductive bits of Palola viridis
#Invertebrate 🧪
- www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palola_...

A hand holding up a handful of Palola viridis epitokes, photo by the National Park Service sourced from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_good_catch_of_palolo_nps_gov.jpg

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Jul 1

One of my favorites! by Alexander Semenov #worldpolychaeteday

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Jul 1

My last echinoblog post on #worldpolychaeteday but it includes a retrospective from 3 years of posts and swimming polychaete love! echinoblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/poly...

#PolychaeteDay 2018 Edition: Swimming Polychaete Worms!

Photo by Karen Osborn So, Every July 1st is the, now posthumous, birthday of NMNH curator Kristian Fauchald, who was one of the most pr...

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Jul 1

A reminder that there are in the neighborhood of 90-100? species of Eunice! so there's MOAR than E. aphroditois (aka the Sand Striker or the Bobbit worm) a LOT more! Here's Eunice macrobranchia from Pacific Mexico.. its PURPLE! #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Eunice macrobranchia

Eunice macrobranchia from Circuito Don Julio Berdegué Aznar, Mazatlán, SIN, MX on March 19, 2021 at 08:15 PM by mariana_1234

www.inaturalist.org

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Jul 1

Sand Mason worm from Ireland! (Lanice conchilega) #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Sand Mason Worm (Lanice conchilega)

Sand Mason Worm from Inner Lees on April 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM by philwilkinson

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's #InternationalPolychaeteDay, and we've got something for you to celebrate. ❤️

Flame on: The vibrant red gossamer worm is the race car of the deep sea: youtu.be/PII8AvmEvnE?...

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Jul 1

I never shared this video of the nereid worm I saw last year because we didn't have video here then, but now you can see this fabulous worm in action for #InternationalPolychaeteDay!

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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · Jul 1

33 years of NIWA - national institute of water and Atmospheric research, Aotearoa/New Zealand ended today - renamed and reformed with the formation of the new Earth Science institute. Here is a video of some of the archive footage- lots of familiar faces from the 12.5 years that I worked there.

33 YEARS OF NIWA

This is "33 YEARS OF NIWA" by NIWA on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · Jun 21

I don't have access to the article but it looks like from yr map Physalia minuta n.sp. is New Zealand & Australian waters restricted. Is that correct?