#echiuroidea

Today's polychaete is Bonellia viridis. These things are wild! The creature you see is the female, and she's green because of a toxin on her skin. The larvae are completely sexless when they drift around in the water, but if a larva lands on her, the toxin signals it to become a male. The female then slurps it up and the male ends up living inside her!

Polychaete of the day is the eldritch spoonworm, Amalosoma eddystonense, doing... whatever the heck spoonworms do?

Today's worm is this mysterious piece of tape crawling across the sea floor. Listriolobus pelodes.

Polychaete of the day is this Ikeda sp. (not ikea as i first read), part of the Echiura or spoon worms.

Polychaete of the day is this taro (or perhaps sweet potato) flavoured spoon worm. Ochetostoma australiense.

Today's polychaete is Ochetostoma erythrogrammon. I avoided Echiura before because I find many gross, but it seems there's some with pretty colours!

Uzak Doğu'nun korkulan mutfağından.. Evet biraz garip olabilir, ama o da bir canlı.. Hancı kurdu, Penis balığı, Echiuroidea