March 2006 Unknown

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Errant Polychaete Amblyosyllis

A swimming adult polychaete worm, Amblyosyllis sp.
This remarkable worm was taken in a plankton haul at Bamfield Marine Station in the summer of 2003. A few polychaete annelids swim and feed in the plankton as adults. This species is similar to one of the more common planktonic species, Autolytus, and was at first mistakenly thought to belong to that genus. But it turned out to be a related genus in the same family, the Syllidae, a diverse and fairly abundant group of polychaetes.
For a visual overview of the Phylum Annelida, updated this year and now available on both VHS and DVD, see our production, Branches on the Tree of Life: Annelids.

 

For a concise and revealing teaching video about Arthropods, get our video/DVD: Branches On the Tree of Life: Arthropods. For a rich overview of marine intertidal ecology, see our program: The Biology of Seashores.