polypeachfuzz

so cal, 10m, 14degC

Let Leslie correct me upon her return...this is a guess based on Lamb & Hanby's Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. First one looks like a "Porcupine worm", Family Euphrosinidae. There is a photo lableled Euphrosine cf. multibranchiata that looks pretty close, but the range could be wrong.

The second wormie thing looks like what they call "many jawed worm" (don't shoot the messenger- I don't make up the common names) labled Glycinde polygnatha, which is present in California, according to the range.

Regardless, both icky wormy things

Cheers,

Marli

Nothing's better than icky wormy things!!

I'm going on memory here since Mike's already removed the images. Marli was right about the first one being a Euphrosine however I wouldn't bet on it being multibranchiata. The second one however is not Glycinde; it's some kind of Nereis or Neanthes which has transformed into an epitoke, a reproductive stage. The hidden head was to the right in the image.

Just because Lamb & Hanby insisted on having common names for every species in the book whether one existed or not doesn't mean people have to use them. Especially when they're as clunky as the ones invented for the book!

Odd.... was it my connection? I couldn't see them this morning, only the words "user posted image". thanks if you reposted!

And obviously my memory is going. The head on the nereid is visible on the right. It has 2 big pairs of eyes which enlarged as part of the epitoke process.