help ID this black and white worm

[sassAwrasse]

Hello.

I can't seem to find an ID for this worm. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Looks like a chiton.

 

[sassAwrasse]

It's not a chiton.

 

[Calappidae]

It is ugley though.

possibly a tucked in peanut worm?

 

[Betta132]

Give it a bit of sand and let it calm down, see if it unfurls a bunch of tentacles. That would be my guess, an unhappy peanut worm.

 

[LeslieH]

It's just a fragment of a polychaete.

 

[sassAwrasse]

It's just a fragment of a polychaete.

What is that?

 

[Betta132]

A bit of some kind of worm. 'Polychate' covers a LOT of different kinds of worm. Might grow back if it's moving around, might not.

 

[LeslieH]

Polychaeta..... Poly = many, chaeta = bristle or hair so these are bristle worms, marine cousins of earthworms. Fireworms (amphinomids), spagetti worms (terebellids), hair worms (cirratulids), fan worms & feather dusters (sabellids & serpulids) are just a few of the families in class Polychaeta. Mostly they're harmless.

The fragment SassAwrasse has will not survive or regrow.

 

[sassAwrasse]

Thanks all.