need help identifying

[rljlll]

found this when i turned the lights on tonight got a new phone its the MDA from T Mobile and thought i would try it out

this looks like some kind of worm any ideas

 

[NaClH20NMYVEIN]

???????

 

[grenaria]

Looks like a Sipunculid (peanut worm). If so, nice find!

 

[rljlll]

why is it a nice find

 

[grenaria]

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-04/rs/index.php

They are universally detrivores. (If that is what you have)

 

[random_ryan]

thats really cool

 

[rljlll]

i don't think thats exactly it it doesn,t have that mouth thing the mough is just a tube and the very end of it is flat looking with is coming to a small cone almost at the center

 

[Salamander]

Hard to tell by the pic but it looks like it oculd be an Oenone worm. Try looking for some pics and see if it is. If so, get rid of it and all others you can catch. They eat snails and other live mollusks by secreting a narcotic like mucus which paralyzes their prey and then devouring them.

 

[grenaria]

Very easy to tell if it's a Oenone or any other kind of Eunicid, it will be segmented and have a big jaw. I didn't see any segmentation in the images, but they are not in focus, so it is hard to tell details.

Sipunculids are unsegmented worms with no jaw, just a bunch of tenticles around their mouth. The tenticles can be completly retracted, and I know with my peanut worms they pull theirs in as soon as they sense any disturbance. How many images of Sipunculids did you look at? That's still my guess.


http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Sipunculid
http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=sipunculid