What is this please ?

Hi everybody !!

I have just registered to youe forum , because I have a question to be answered and a friend from Greece (I am also Greek) , told me that Leslie is the genious of the century (at least !!)

So , Leslie and anybody else ..... please identify this for me . I saw it while scubadiving in Sithonia Chalkidiki Northern Greece between -20 and -25 msw and nobody knows what it is :

Thanks in advance !!

My friends would laugh so hard if they read that!! Obviously your friend hasn't read some of my recent more stupid posts....

Anyway, I think your animal is an echiuroid (phylum Echiura) which got out of it's burrow. The common name is spoon worm but I haven't got any idea why. The skinny end is the proboscis. It normally lives hidden in a burrow with only the proboscis showing.

http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/echiura.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bo...s)_PC301461.JPG

http://www.zum.de/Faecher/Materialien/hupf...h/bonellia.html

http://www.asturnatura.com/especie/bonellia-viridis.html

This video is of a different type of echiuroid but you can see how the body inflates & deflates & twists around

My friends would laugh so hard if they read that!! Obviously your friend hasn't read some of my recent more stupid posts....

 

Anyway, I think your animal is an echiuroid (phylum Echiura) which got out of it's burrow. The common name is spoon worm but I haven't got any idea why. The skinny end is the proboscis. It normally lives hidden in a burrow with only the proboscis showing.

 

http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/echiura.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bo...s)_PC301461.JPG

http://www.zum.de/Faecher/Materialien/hupf...h/bonellia.html

http://www.asturnatura.com/especie/bonellia-viridis.html

 

This video is of a different type of echiuroid but you can see how the body inflates & deflates & twists around

Your "Celestial Modesty" , thank you very much for your answer !!