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[Annelida] Unidentified animal (with pictures, sorry)

Harry Hove, ten via annelida%40net.bio.net (by harry.tenhove from naturalis.nl)
Fri Mar 23 11:51:58 EST 2018


xylo-pagurus, wood-hermit, what an apt name!

Harry

2018-03-23 15:37 GMT+01:00 Stephane Hourdez <hourdez from sb-roscoff.fr>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have worked in the area and this looks like a Xylopagurus. Some of them
> have their (modified) uropods sticking out at one end of the hollowed-up
> wood piece they inhabit.
> Have a good day,
>
> Stephane
>
>
> > On Mar 19, 2018, at 1:15 PM, Paulo Henrique BONIFÁCIO <
> paulobonifacio from gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > A colleague doing annotation from ROV images observed this animal (black
> > circle) and we dont what it could be.
> > It seems to use the wood piece (?) to live as a hermit grab. I supposed
> the
> > yellow structures could be in the anterior region but if its the case it
> > moves backwards. I think its not a polychaete but i have no idea what
> could
> > be. It seems to have about 10 centimetres (maybe more).
> >
> > The photos were done from 520 and 575 m depth in l’Astrolabe Bay Papua
> New
> > Guinea.
> >
> > Some idea???
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Paulo
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> > Paulo Bonifacio
> > bonif from me.com
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