Guernsey marine worms

This gallery contains images of marine 'worms' - species that look like a worm and have 'worm' in their name - including species in the phyla platyhelminthes (flatworms), nemertea (ribbon worms), annelida (segmented worms) (including leeches and polychaetes); and sipuncula.

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This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. I found it in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on April 17, 2007. It was identified as Lysidice ninetta in the family eunicidae by Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine, USA; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri, University of Catania, Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC), Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino, Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man, UK; and Joana Zanol based in Washington, D.C., USA.

I contacted the polychaete researchers in April 2007 through the annelid email list http://www.annelida.net/

Dr. Mary E. Petersen wrote "Lysidice ninetta appears to be the only UK eunicid with three antennae, no dorsal cirri on the apodous segment and the color pattern shown. Both the reddish anterior segments with fine white spots and the pale (white?) ring on chaetiger 2 should be diagnostic."

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Guernsey marine worms