Some friendly polychaetes?
January 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Some friendly polychaetes?
Dancing with the worms—a compilation of our favorite Alciopid worm dance moves. 🕺🏽
Alciopid polychaetes have large, complex eyes with corneas, irises, lenses, and other structures that give them excellent vision. 👀
Alciopid polychaetes have large, complex eyes with corneas, irises, lenses, and other structures that give them excellent vision. 👀
September 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Dancing with the worms—a compilation of our favorite Alciopid worm dance moves. 🕺🏽
Alciopid polychaetes have large, complex eyes with corneas, irises, lenses, and other structures that give them excellent vision. 👀
Alciopid polychaetes have large, complex eyes with corneas, irises, lenses, and other structures that give them excellent vision. 👀
February 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
December 12, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Nobody loves *oligochaetes*
Polychaetes get lovely common names like "Christmas tree worm"
Polychaetes get lovely common names like "Christmas tree worm"
February 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Nobody loves *oligochaetes*
Polychaetes get lovely common names like "Christmas tree worm"
Polychaetes get lovely common names like "Christmas tree worm"
They were amazing! 😍 a field of sabellid #polychaetes for early #wormwednesday
June 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
They were amazing! 😍 a field of sabellid #polychaetes for early #wormwednesday
just heard "politics" as "polychaetes" it's officially over
October 30, 2023 at 9:36 PM
just heard "politics" as "polychaetes" it's officially over
Syllid polychaetes. Because you can barely get weirder. bsky.app/profile/sara...
Polychaetes do well in the weirdo department. Behold Ramisyllis, living in the labyrinth of sponge channels and consequently having adopted a branching body form. Or Exogone, who grows its babies from its feet. Because why not.
June 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Syllid polychaetes. Because you can barely get weirder. bsky.app/profile/sara...
Inverts are generally weird, polychaetes are definitely weird, & spoon worms are the weirdos of the polychaetes. They're cylindrical & soft-bodied with a non-retractable proboscis which can be rolled into a scoop-shape to feed. Here's Ochetostoma baronii, found while snorkeling in Baja. #InverteFest
December 31, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Inverts are generally weird, polychaetes are definitely weird, & spoon worms are the weirdos of the polychaetes. They're cylindrical & soft-bodied with a non-retractable proboscis which can be rolled into a scoop-shape to feed. Here's Ochetostoma baronii, found while snorkeling in Baja. #InverteFest
Myzostomids polychaetes on a crinoid attached to sponge stalk. Poliopogons & other glass sponges 2900m
#OkeanosExplorer dive 4 on 7.24.26 #MarineLife
#OkeanosExplorer dive 4 on 7.24.26 #MarineLife
July 25, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Myzostomids polychaetes on a crinoid attached to sponge stalk. Poliopogons & other glass sponges 2900m
#OkeanosExplorer dive 4 on 7.24.26 #MarineLife
#OkeanosExplorer dive 4 on 7.24.26 #MarineLife
like, the 8 billion people who have never heard of polychaetes would never search for or buy those images, the 5 people who care can immediately tell they're shit
w h y
w h y
October 16, 2024 at 8:55 AM
like, the 8 billion people who have never heard of polychaetes would never search for or buy those images, the 5 people who care can immediately tell they're shit
w h y
w h y
These intertidal celebrities are polychaetes in the genus Owenia. I love the artistic use of sand and shell particles to create the tube they live in. And the articulation between sections rivals the best medieval armor. Actual speed. 🦑 #marinelife #polycheates #Alaska
March 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
These intertidal celebrities are polychaetes in the genus Owenia. I love the artistic use of sand and shell particles to create the tube they live in. And the articulation between sections rivals the best medieval armor. Actual speed. 🦑 #marinelife #polycheates #Alaska
Merry Christmas to; Spirobranchus giganteus, the Christmas tree worm! Named for their bright colorful crowns that resemble artificial trees, these polychaetes live a sessile life boared into hard corals.
I'm super excited about these worms, so this will be a long thread!
I'm super excited about these worms, so this will be a long thread!
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Merry Christmas to; Spirobranchus giganteus, the Christmas tree worm! Named for their bright colorful crowns that resemble artificial trees, these polychaetes live a sessile life boared into hard corals.
I'm super excited about these worms, so this will be a long thread!
I'm super excited about these worms, so this will be a long thread!
Antarctic polychaete worms for #wormwednesday youtu.be/AK-8WbADoGA?...
Antarctic Polychaetes: Under the Ice
YouTube video by The Naturalist Project
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May 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Antarctic polychaete worms for #wormwednesday youtu.be/AK-8WbADoGA?...
STUDENT FUND for visiting the @nhmla.bsky.social collections! especially for polychaetes! #wormwednesday nhm.org/student-coll...
February 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
STUDENT FUND for visiting the @nhmla.bsky.social collections! especially for polychaetes! #wormwednesday nhm.org/student-coll...
🪼 For #MolluscMonday, a glimpse into the fantastic world of Alexander Semenov, who captures marine invertebrates like no one else 💙
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December 30, 2024 at 9:15 AM
🪼 For #MolluscMonday, a glimpse into the fantastic world of Alexander Semenov, who captures marine invertebrates like no one else 💙
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I have just found out about #noVERMber so here we go. This ceramics piece I made was inspired by Christmas tree and feather duster worms, which are #polychaetes. The photo by Becky A. Bauer at the end shows the real worms! #SciArt #ceramics #pottery #handbuiltpottery
November 24, 2024 at 9:34 PM
I have just found out about #noVERMber so here we go. This ceramics piece I made was inspired by Christmas tree and feather duster worms, which are #polychaetes. The photo by Becky A. Bauer at the end shows the real worms! #SciArt #ceramics #pottery #handbuiltpottery
International Polychaete Day and Canada Day coincide every year... a coincidence??? I think not
July 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
International Polychaete Day and Canada Day coincide every year... a coincidence??? I think not
Not Megalodon, but definitely some eldritch polychaetes
January 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Not Megalodon, but definitely some eldritch polychaetes
More wormy facts 🧪:
Polychaetes have survived five mass extinctions. the earliest known polychaetes were discovered n the Burgess Shale, dating ~505 million yrs ago (Cambrian period). In the yrs 2 come, Earth witnessed 5 mass extinction, one of which killed ~96% of all marine species.
Polychaetes have survived five mass extinctions. the earliest known polychaetes were discovered n the Burgess Shale, dating ~505 million yrs ago (Cambrian period). In the yrs 2 come, Earth witnessed 5 mass extinction, one of which killed ~96% of all marine species.
June 30, 2023 at 2:36 AM
More wormy facts 🧪:
Polychaetes have survived five mass extinctions. the earliest known polychaetes were discovered n the Burgess Shale, dating ~505 million yrs ago (Cambrian period). In the yrs 2 come, Earth witnessed 5 mass extinction, one of which killed ~96% of all marine species.
Polychaetes have survived five mass extinctions. the earliest known polychaetes were discovered n the Burgess Shale, dating ~505 million yrs ago (Cambrian period). In the yrs 2 come, Earth witnessed 5 mass extinction, one of which killed ~96% of all marine species.
My exit from the other site cost me a contact and wondering if anyone can assist with a taxonomist who works on polychaetes??? 🪱🧪🔬
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October 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My exit from the other site cost me a contact and wondering if anyone can assist with a taxonomist who works on polychaetes??? 🪱🧪🔬
Currently the art book contains:
7 octopuses
5 crabs
4 slugs
3 polychaetes
2 squids, beetles, jellyfishes, butterflies, snails, moths, wasps
1 nautilus, isopod, cicada, clam, scorpion, spider, copepod, sponge, anomalocaris
+ pieces with mixed subjects
submit now if your fave is underrepresented 👀
7 octopuses
5 crabs
4 slugs
3 polychaetes
2 squids, beetles, jellyfishes, butterflies, snails, moths, wasps
1 nautilus, isopod, cicada, clam, scorpion, spider, copepod, sponge, anomalocaris
+ pieces with mixed subjects
submit now if your fave is underrepresented 👀
The art book submission link for the April season of #InverteFest is already open! The form will close at some point during the event (in the last 7 days of April) or when we hit 86 submissions.
Submit your work now!
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Submit your work now!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Currently the art book contains:
7 octopuses
5 crabs
4 slugs
3 polychaetes
2 squids, beetles, jellyfishes, butterflies, snails, moths, wasps
1 nautilus, isopod, cicada, clam, scorpion, spider, copepod, sponge, anomalocaris
+ pieces with mixed subjects
submit now if your fave is underrepresented 👀
7 octopuses
5 crabs
4 slugs
3 polychaetes
2 squids, beetles, jellyfishes, butterflies, snails, moths, wasps
1 nautilus, isopod, cicada, clam, scorpion, spider, copepod, sponge, anomalocaris
+ pieces with mixed subjects
submit now if your fave is underrepresented 👀
hmm... oh, lets do SYLLID polychaetes today! Here's Trypanosyllis from Moorea, from @invertebratesDC #wormwednesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
hmm... oh, lets do SYLLID polychaetes today! Here's Trypanosyllis from Moorea, from @invertebratesDC #wormwednesday