Help in ID'ing this creature please.

[Jonleda]

Hi all,

I was wondering if I am right in thinking that this is a vermetid worm/snail? It is currently residing in a tube in my Xenia green star coral not too far from a Eunicid Worm which is also in the rock and is about 5" long, well the bit I have seen.

 

[cloak]

Wow! That's kind of spooky. It almost looks like an eye. Anyways, it might be a Vermetid snail. If you see it cast out a slimy web at feeding time then that's exactly what it is. GL.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php

 

[Jonleda]

Thanks Cloak, never seen any slimy substance, just two yellow horn things and looks like its nibbling away at its tunnel Nothing goes near it.

 

[cloak]

Here's some more pictures for comparison. If you look closely they do have a couple horn like things that come out of the tube.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/vermetid.shtml