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Today's worm is basically a little dragon. Or perhaps an axolotl. Ampharete sp. (undescribed species)

Photo from Florida Museum of Natural History

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Taxonomy Tournament: Annelids

Sabellida. This order of marine worms is made up of filter feeders with feeding tentacles, such as the feather duster worm

Terebellida. Marine worms of this order are sessile detritivores that live within a tube they form out of sand. It includes extremophiles like the Pompeii worms

Which clade of animals is better?

Sabellida

Terebellida

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Voting ended onMar 19, 2024

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Today's worm is a mini pink blob of noodles.

Photo by Chris Roberts

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Today's worm is this spaghetti monster trapped inside a glass. Eupolymnia sp.

Photo by emmaheikkinen

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Polychaete of the day is the Pompeii worm! These things are wild; they live by hydrothermal vents, where the tail end of the worm is in near-boiling water while the head is close to room temperature.

The white hairy bits on the photo are actually bacteria colonies that are symbionts with the worm! The worm eats the bacteria, and they help insulate against the heat. This photo is the worm outside of its tube, so if you find them in the ocean you usually won't see them like this

Photo by Olivier Dugornay

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Today's worm is a green flavoured Acrocirrus sp.

Photo by Zachary Robertson

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Polychaete of the day is this delicate little Lanice sp. One of the earliest worms I featured on the blog!

Photo by Damien Brouste

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Polychaete of the day is the green bomber worm, Swima bombiviridis. They can shed their gills as a defence mechanism, which glows green for a few seconds, hence the name.

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