I recently received a message and some images of pelagic polychaetes
from Monterey, California. I have never seen worms like this (although most
of my work has been with Alciopids and I have little direct experience with
other pelagic families). I wonder if anyone on the list can help identify
these worms? The message from Steve Haddock is listed below followed by
his web site where the images can be viewed.
"Thanks for the interest. We are a little bit mystified because it apparently
had no setae. The depth collected was around 300 meters, here off
Monterey.
Two of the images are in-situ pics from the ROV, showing how it was
apparently munching on a ctenophore (lending credibility to an alciopid
heritage). We have seen something similar from the Johnson-Sea-Link in
years past...
I'll be curious to hear your impressions. If you could also
cc' Erik (thuesene at evergreen.edu) and my colleague Karen Osborn
(oska at mbari.org), I'm sure they'll be interested to hear as
well."
The images can be seen at:
http://www.mbari.org/~haddock/polychaete.html
Stan Rice
Department of Biology
University of Tampa
Tampa, FL 33606
e-mail: srice at alpha.utampa.edu
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