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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Peanut brittle?

  

Okay, I know I've shown a few peanut worms recently, but this was a nice view of several different peanut worms (Phascolosoma agassizii) extending their introverts from a crevice and using the short ring of tentacles at the end to feed.  You can also see several arms of a brittle star extending out of the crevice and even lying across one of the peanut worms.

P.S.  If you want to play the "phyla game" again, look around to see what you can find.  Below I'll list the phyla in this image.

1. Peanut worm (Phascolosoma agassizii), Phylum Sipuncula
2. Brittle star, Phylum Echinodermata
3. Barnacle, Phylum Arthropoda
4. Limpet (checkered, in lower left corner), Phylum Mollusca
5. Tube worm (
orange tentacles, upper right corner), Phylum Annelida
6. Flatworm (gray/white, same species as last night), Phylum Platyhelminthes

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