My guess is a polychaete in the family Flabelligeridae. It is segemented, looks like it has chaetae and cirri, and the two clusters of long shiny bristles at the anterior end suggest Flabelligeridae.
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From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Paulo Henrique BONIFÁCIO
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 7:26 AM
To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu
Subject: Re: [Annelida] unknown animal
Hi all!
thank you for your comments! I should write what I think in the last mail.
So... when you look dorsally you can see "chaetae" arrangement looking like chrysopetalids but ventrally you fins this kind of legs.
I have worked with polychaetas for a longtime but I dont think it is a polychaeta because the "chaeta" does not have the same kind of insertion than polychaeta. In polychaetes the chaeta come from internal body and in this animal, it is a kind of just attached in body surface. Moreover this animal has 13 pairs of "legs" with spines attached and this kind of insertion reminders me crustaceans. The legs appear to be articulated and the body surface is covered by minuscules spines.
attached in this mail, you can find a picture of the rigid "chaeta" from this animal maybe calcareous????
I hope someone knows what this can be :D
Best regards,
Paulo
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2016-09-29 13:01 GMT+02:00 Theresa Guggolz <theresaguggolz from googlemail.com>:
> Hey Paulo,
>> I asked around in my office. How big is the animal? My colleage
> guessed that it's maybe something not fully developed. She said, it
> could maybe something like Tardigrada or a very strange Copepod.
>> I hope thats a help
>>> All the best
>> Theresa
>> 2016-09-29 11:38 GMT+02:00 Paulo Henrique BONIFÁCIO <
>paulobonifacio from gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all!
>>>> A friend is sorting some deep sea samples from mediterranean sea and
>> has found this animal.
>>>> Unfortunately, we have no idea what this can be, not even phylum ...
>> shame :(
>>>> what do you think??? have you seen this before? any idea?
>>>> Thank you very much,
>> Kind regards,
>>>> Paulo
>>>>>>>>>> [image: Images intégrées 3][image: Images intégrées 4][image: Images
>> intégrées 2][image: Images intégrées 1]
>>>>>> Paulo Bonifacio
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