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Worm ID

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Worm ID

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  1. I saw this worm bouncing around on the bottom in around 4 metres of water in Long Bay, Malabar, a south eastern suburb of Sydney.

     

    Worm_LongBay07.jpg

     

    Worm_LongBay07-2.jpg

     

    I'm guessing it is some species of nemertean.

  2. This - or something like it - has come up before. If it's really the same thing then it's the proboscis of a giant echuroid in the genus Ikeda. Here's the link for the previous post - http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showt...20worm&st=0

     

    Nemertinator will be happy to tell me I'm wrong if it's a nemertean. :)

    Edited by Leslie
  3. Sorry to be slow on this - just cleaning out old mail.

    I would not have guessed echiuran proboscis on my own :), but yes that is clearly what it must be. Definitely not nemertean :(

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