worms from central sulawesi

here´s some food for Leslie,

guess the yellow guy is a baby xmastree worm.

cheers,

beo

Wow, thanks Beo!

You're right about #4 - it's a baby xmas tree (genus Spirobranchus) and it's so small the tube isn't even fully chitinized. Very nice.

#3 - One of my family genera - Amblyosyllis in the family Syllidae. These guys live among sessile inverts like sponges, corals, tunicates, and probably feed on them too. They always have just a small number of segments & that very characteristic shape with long appendages.

#2 - This is a poser I'm afraid. A barnacle trying it's best to look like a feather duster.

#1 - A flatworm listed as Prosthecercaeus sp 2 in Newman & Cannon's book on flatworms. I don't know if it's been described yet.

Thanks Leslie,

very interesting- no worm, a barnacle!

think i need an ID book for all these little weird crawlers, can you recomend something?

here is an other special endemic beauty from the area in free flight.