Off-topic: A Panoply of Polychaetes! Photos by Arthur Anker

Just returned from Paris and am snowed under by jet lag and catchup, so here are some stunning images of various polychate worms!  by my colleague  Arthur Anker formerly at the Universidade Federal do Ceara, Labomar but now at the National University of Singapore.

Arthur's photography stuns me whenever I see it and if I can share it with the public than I do! Enjoy!

and if you enjoy polychaetes go check out my link page of "bobbit worm" videos! here.

My post on the worm-shrimp 1-2 punch vs. crown of thorns starfish here.

Gorekia! the worm that lives INSIDE a sea urchin! here.

The Leather star (Dermasterias) scale worm love? story! here.

 A gorgeous Trypanosyllis sp, a syllid worm from Moorea, French Polynesia.

A stunning Eupolymnia tube worm from the Caribbean

Head on with Diopatra sp. (Onuphidae) from the mudflats of Singapore

and more Diopatra love!

Hermodice cf. canunculata-a fire worm from Sao Tome

Eunice sp from the Caribbean coast of Panama


Nereis cf. riisei, rolled up into a spiral, fr. Panama

Fireworm (Chloeia sp) from Panama Canal



Branchiomma sp. a sabellid worm from Sao Tome, Brazil
Lepidonotus sp. from the Caribbean Pontogenia from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia A festively colored scale worm, Lepidasthenia sp. from Cozumel Island, Mexico

A neat pic of a sand-tube worm, Pectinaria IN a sand-grain tube! from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.


Another Pectinaria species, from Florida showing the worm and its sand-grain tube


Finally, a maldanid polychaete worm from Australia