#WormWednesday lament of Busch, 1851 “.. marine creatures are not yet required, like us citizens of continental states, to always carry sufficient identification [..] it is often impossible for [..] a naturalist vigilant upon them to determine the origin or purpose of each individual encountered.”

Same with posing photos - they look lovely in snake-like sinuous curves tho. Here's Roberta McIntosh from the 19thC.

#Wormwednesday Are you interested in Annelida research and beautiful complicated diverse annelids? Join us on the Annelida-l listserv. Running since 1995 and, courtesy of a new host, the DFN, now based in Germany.
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[pic rov dive @schmidtocean.bsky.social]

#WormWednesday What a classic clear figure! It's all there for you if you wanted to id a Caulleriella jormungandri Grosse, Kongsrud, Alvestad, Eilertsen & Budaeva, new species from Loki’s Castle vents, Arctic Ocean. Jörmungandr is a Norse sea serpent or worm.
www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/a...

#Wormwednesday The syllid Cryptochaetosyllis imitatio gen. et sp. nov. is one of the top ten year-2024 species selected by judges at WoRMS (world register of marine species)
marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=...
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#WormWednesday Spirobranchus serpulid cluster being collected by ROV from Sonne, somewhere (where?) off New Zealand/Aotearoa about 230m, dive 118, 13 Feb @marumuni629.bsky.social, @oceanhelen.bsky.social

NZ is a big place, but this is Ghoul seamount on Graveyard complex, near the top, out on the Chatham Rise. About 900 m

Here are the most observed Annelida species on @inaturalist.bsky.social which has just passed the milestone of 500,000 Taxa observed. Amazing!
To see all the annelids go to: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Wow, Steinbeck's brilliant "Log from the Sea of Cortez" (1951) is still in print. Check it out if you have never read it.

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The marine specimen-collecting boat expedition he made in 1940 with Ed Ricketts.

Our #Openaccess new bone-worms paper. Four nsp. Osedax, two the first from New Zealand seas, from a minke whale fall.
www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/a...

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