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  1. LeslieH
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    New Discovery...The Walking Turd Worm.

    The biggest ones live in the Antarctic; they're about as long & as wide as an american football & about 2 inches thick. Temperate & tropical species...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jul 26, 2011 in forum: Inverts
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    New Discovery...The Walking Turd Worm.

    Thanks Curt, although I'm not really sure I want that name stuck in my head whenever I see one of these in the future! :D I much prefer the common...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jul 25, 2011 in forum: Inverts
  3. LeslieH
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    Bristleworms are taking over the earth!!! Run for your lives!!!

    Stuff & nonsense! :) It's a normal event that takes place once or a couple times a year in certain species, as normal as coral spawning. The worms...
    Post by: LeslieH, Apr 7, 2011 in forum: Inverts
  4. LeslieH
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    Bristleworm Poll

    :laugh3: Why am I not surprised? :laugh3:
    Post by: LeslieH, Dec 5, 2010 in forum: Inverts
  5. LeslieH
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    Bristleworm Poll

    I'm really glad to see the results. Just a few years ago the response would have been overwhelmingly "kill the suckers!" Fortunately the old myths...
    Post by: LeslieH, Dec 5, 2010 in forum: Inverts
  6. LeslieH
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    worm id,need help please

    Nope, you still have lots & lots of eunicids. :) An epitoke can be either the whole animal that's modified or the modified hind end which has broken...
    Post by: LeslieH, Nov 8, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  7. LeslieH
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    worm id,need help please

    Epitoke is right. They're the sexually modified rear ends of eunicid polychaetes.
    Post by: LeslieH, Nov 7, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  8. LeslieH
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    Spiney clear thing with tentacles???

    Gabby - they're reef safe and the spines won't hurt anything Incognito -- Nope, no names. If the images are supposed to enlarge when clicked that...
    Post by: LeslieH, Nov 5, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  9. LeslieH
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    Spiney clear thing with tentacles???

    My sincere apologies for giving offense Incognito, as I didn't mean to imply that you had used the photos without permission, just that the credits...
    Post by: LeslieH, Nov 5, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  10. LeslieH
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    Spiney clear thing with tentacles???

    Not exactly. Gabby, thanks for emailing me. Your creature & the picture on the left in Incognito's link are not barnacles. They are polychaete...
    Post by: LeslieH, Nov 5, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  11. LeslieH
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    Slug-Like-Thing?

    It's a solitary tunicate AKA sea squirt. I can see both the incurrent & outcurrent siphons even though the picture is blurry. It's a filter feeder...
    Post by: LeslieH, Sep 18, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  12. LeslieH
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    Unresolved Something is moving on my Turbo Snail!!!

    The first one is probably a polychaete in the family Spionidae. 2 feeding tentacles come off the head to pick up food particles. Some species in...
    Post by: LeslieH, Sep 18, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Orange/Red root?

    Ah, now that's a interesting "animal" for a change. It's a naked (as opposed to shelled) branching foraminiferan, a single-cell organism. They're...
    Post by: LeslieH, Sep 7, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Slug - Good or bad

    Sorry, it appears to be a species of Dermatobranchus. The whole family are specialized predators on soft corals and gorgonians. Here's a similar...
    Post by: LeslieH, Sep 5, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Crab ID

    This is an easy crab to id because of the distinctive color pattern on its carapace. Atergatis floridus, the egg crab (because the shell is smooth &...
    Post by: LeslieH, Aug 18, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    really weird thing!?

    That first one is a great link because it shows the worm in an aquarium just like in the original poster's image.
    Post by: LeslieH, Jul 5, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  17. LeslieH
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    What kind of Crab is this?

    Baby swimming crab in the family Portunidae. It is an aggressive predator.
    Post by: LeslieH, Jul 4, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    What kind of worm is this?

    It's just a harmless peanut worm, phylum Sipuncula. It's a detritus feeder that picks up food particles with a ring of short tentacles.
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 30, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Hermit ID and info please

    It doesn't appear to be any of the images on that page. The colors of the legs, the antennae, the mouthparts, and the eyes are all diagnostic...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 25, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Very Small Crab

    All crabs start small & grow and there are thousands of species. Without a crisp, well focused image it's impossible to say what it is, sorry.
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 25, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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